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Joliette

OpenStats City Score, ranking history, and local readings for Joliette.

How Joliette scores

Joliette sits at City Score rank #171 with a standing of 33%, from 8 of 8 open-data pillars (tax, construction, connectivity, indoor air, water, seismic hazard, growth, safety). Missing pillars score at median standing so thin coverage cannot inflate the rank. The chart below shows how that standing moves year to year.

Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #107 of 172 (2025); indoor radon rank #40 of 117 at 126 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #37 of 172 (13.59 mill rate). Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.

#171
City Score rank
33%
City Score

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Local sports in Joliette

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Earlier years: 2026 · 2025 · 2024 · 2023

Joliette in brief

Joliette organizes itself around the Rivière L'Assomption and a downtown that expects an audience. Place Bourget holds the Saturday Marché public de Joliette, then flips into Les Rendez-vous de la Place when the outdoor concert season starts. Winter still claims Festi-Glace de Joliette, only now the celebration hugs the riverbanks instead of a vanished natural rink. Hydro-Joliette keeps the utility desk local, and Espace citoyen Civis is where residents chase leisure sign-ups without dressing the errand up as a grand digital transformation.

Culture is not a side file here. Festival de Lanaudière puts classical music on the municipal calendar the way other towns list softball, and Festival Mémoire et Racines keeps traditional tunes in the same downtown orbit. Festival du Rire de Joliette packs the centre-ville with comics for a few loud nights. Joliette Halte culturelle is the collective summer label that ties those partners together with the Ville de Joliette, so the season reads as one shared stage rather than a stack of unrelated posters. When works crews close Boulevard de l'Industrie or dig near Boulevard Manseau, the notices read like neighbourhood mail. Musée d'art de Joliette and Centre culturel Desjardins sit inside that same Halte culturelle partnership, so visual art and stage nights share the civic calendar with the classical festival.

On the OpenStats City Score for 2026, Joliette sits at rank 84 of 125. Rankings aside, the hometown read is a Lanaudière cultural halt: river on one side, Place Bourget on the other, and a summer that smells like market peaches and orchestra warm-ups. Parc des Dalles covers the skatepark days when the square is already full. Classical summer and market Saturday can share a weekend without competing for the same crowd.

Drawn from Ville de Joliette, Ville de Joliette festivals, Ville de Joliette contact, Ville de Joliette Halte culturelle.

City Score over time

City Score from 2016–2025 across eight open-data pillars. Individual study placements are listed in the panels below.

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Rankings for Joliette

Each study below is its own ranking. Where a study has more than one edition for this city, the chart shows standing across those years only.

Connectivity · OpenStats

OpenStats Broadband Download Speeds

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Cities ranked by estimated best advertised download (Mbps). Anchored to the current ISED National Broadband Data vintage, then backcast along a national speed curve with city-specific fiber-arrival and 50/10 availability paths so relative ranks can change over the decade. Not a claim of audited historical hex maps for every year.

10 editions · 2016–2025

#139
Latest · 2025 · of 172
Score 41.5

Construction · OpenStats

OpenStats Building Permit Value

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Cities ranked by calendar-year building permit value. Direct rows sum Statistics Canada Table 34-10-0292-01. Cities without a direct reading use population × provincial per-capita permit intensity (estimated), so every seed city has a year-varying construction signal.

10 editions · 2016–2025

#107
Latest · 2025 · of 172
Score 140768297

Composite · OpenStats

OpenStats City Score

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Dimensional average of OpenStats open-data pillars for each panel year 2016–2025: tax, construction, connectivity, indoor air, water, seismic hazard, population growth, and crime severity. Each series is scored 0–1 within its edition; series in the same pillar are averaged, then all eight pillars are averaged with equal weight. Missing pillars score at median standing (0.5). Growth and CSI use StatCan annual tables; permits, mill rates, and broadband use live rows plus documented year-varying estimates where needed. Radon, water, and PGA may be survey/model vintages carried forward and are flagged when static for more than two years. External commercial livability lists are never inputs.

10 editions · 2016–2025

#171
Latest · 2025 · of 172
Score 0.328

Safety · OpenStats

OpenStats Crime Severity Index

OpenStats

Communities ranked by Statistics Canada Crime Severity Index (Table 35-10-0026-01). Rank 1 is highest CSI (worse). Values are CMA where a metro match exists, otherwise provincial CSI. Hometown pages label the grain.

10 editions · 2016–2025

#111
Latest · 2025 · of 172
Score 61.29

Water · OpenStats

OpenStats Drinking Water Hardness

OpenStats

Communities ranked by municipal drinking-water hardness (mg/L as CaCO₃). Hardness changes slowly; the atlas vintage is carried across panel years and flagged when static for more than two years.

10 editions · 2016–2025

#64
Latest · 2025 · of 172
Score 189

Health · OpenStats

OpenStats Highest Indoor Radon

OpenStats

Communities ranked by Health Canada survey mean indoor radon (Bq/m³). Rank 1 is the highest mean. Decade panel years without a new survey carry the CMA survey vintage forward; they are not annual retests.

10 editions · 2016–2025

#40
Latest · 2025 · of 117
Score 126.1

sports · OpenStats

OpenStats Local Sports Depth

OpenStats

Cities ranked by weighted count of documented local teams (pro, junior, university, high-school hubs). Rank 1 = deepest documented sports footprint among covered seed cities. Not a claim about on-field success. See sports methodology for weights and gaps.

Single edition · 2025

#94
Published · 2025 · of 172
Score 3

Only one published edition places Joliette in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.

Original source · Full edition

Growth · OpenStats

OpenStats Population Growth

OpenStats

Cities ranked by year-over-year population growth from Statistics Canada annual CSD estimates (Table 17-10-0155-01). Rank 1 is fastest growth. A few places without a clean CSD match use a provincial-path estimate anchored to seed population.

10 editions · 2016–2025

#124
Latest · 2025 · of 172
Score 0.006015982760168807

Property tax · OpenStats

OpenStats Residential Mill Rates

OpenStats

Municipalities ranked by residential mill rate. Rank 1 is the highest rate. Published municipal years are used when available; gaps are interpolated or follow the provincial median path so the tax pillar moves year to year for every city.

10 editions · 2016–2025

#37
Latest · 2025 · of 172
Score 13.591595339550203

Hazards · OpenStats

OpenStats Seismic Hazard (PGA)

OpenStats

Communities ranked by NRCan peak ground acceleration (higher = stronger shaking hazard). Rank 1 is highest PGA. The seismic model is multi-year; values are carried across the City Score panel and flagged as static until NRCan publishes a new generation.

10 editions · 2016–2025

#31
Latest · 2025 · of 172
Score 0.164

Worth knowing in Joliette

Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.

  • Festi-Glace de Joliette now gathers along the Rivière L'Assomption after the natural rink era ended.

    Ville de Joliette

  • Marché public de Joliette sets up on Place Bourget every Saturday in season.

    Ville de Joliette

  • Hydro-Joliette appears as its own municipal service line beside permits and Civis.

    Ville de Joliette

  • Joliette Halte culturelle unites Festival de Lanaudière with Musée d'art de Joliette and Centre culturel Desjardins.

    Ville de Joliette

Places to see

Place Bourget

Downtown square that hosts the public market and Les Rendez-vous de la Place concerts. It is the stage locals point to when they say the centre-ville is busy.

Parc des Dalles

Municipal park with a skatepark program that surfaces as Ça planche à Joliette on the city calendar. A weekday stop when Place Bourget is packed.

Rivière L'Assomption

River corridor that frames winter festival staging and everyday downtown geography. Joliette talks about the banks the way other towns talk about a main street alone.

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