Quebec · Civic arena
Joliette drinking water hardness is 189 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#223 of 343
47% City Score XP
5/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Joliette packs 5 of eight open-data pillars into its composite standing. Tap a rival below to see how the hometown stacks up head-to-head.
Rivalries on deck
Hardness, pH, and lead from municipal reports on the OpenStats water atlas. This page uses a regional estimate — open the water atlas for method notes.
Full Joliette water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Gatineau · vs LachuteHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Joliette from municipal and provincial water records. Open the animated map for the full watershed-to-tap diagram — no nested topic navigation here.
Permits, tax, internet, radon, hazards, drinking water, and sports rankings where a CHL hometown applies.
Joliette sits at City Score rank #223 with a standing of 47%, from 5 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: indoor radon rank #281 of 327 at 58 Bq/m³ survey mean. Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.
Against the national corpus, Joliette carries a City Score standing of 47% (rank #223 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 0 points above the Quebec peer average across 34 ranked cities. Within Quebec, Joliette ranks #17 of 34 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is indoor radon (standing 86%, rank #281 of 327, raw score 57.7). The weakest observed pillar is seismic hazard (standing 14%, rank #49 of 343).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 189 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Joliette. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #223 of 343
5/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #137
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Rank #153
Rank #281
Rank #49
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Joliette pillar standing
Eight equal-weight City Score pillars, 2025 panel year.
Source: OpenStats composite / study editions
City Score standing trend
Standing percentage by panel year (higher is better).
Years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Source: OpenStats composite timeseries
Achievements
Published residential mill-rate context for Joliette.
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
River corridor that frames winter festival staging and everyday downtown geography. Joliette talks about the banks the way other towns talk
Marché public de Joliette sets up on Place Bourget every Saturday in season.
Where Joliette sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
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 2025, Joliette sits at rank 314 of 343. 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 from 2016–2025 across eight open-data pillars. Individual study placements are listed in the panels below.
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.
Safety · OpenStats
Statistics Canada does not publish a police-service Crime Severity Index that OpenStats can match to Joliette without copying a province, CMA, or another city. The safety pillar scores at median standing (50%) on City Score, the same rule used for other missing pillars.
Connectivity · OpenStats
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Cities ranked by household-weighted maximum advertised download (Mbps) from ISED National Broadband Data hex ISP rows, with hex-to-city assignment by population-weighted gravity. The headline 2025 score is the dwelling-weighted mean of per-hex technology ceilings (fibre and cable at 1 Gbps, DSL lower). Household-weighted 50/10 availability (%) is stored on atlas rows as avail_5010_pct. Earlier panel years backcast along a national speed curve with city-specific fiber and availability paths.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Composite · OpenStats
OpenStats
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). Crime severity uses StatCan police-service CSI only (Tables 35-10-0026-01 and 35-10-0063-01); cities without a police-service match take median standing on the safety pillar. Growth uses StatCan CSD estimates; construction uses verified municipal building-permit value per resident (population field on each city record, 2021 Census vintage); 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
Water · OpenStats
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
Water · OpenStats
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Communities ranked by reported lead (µg/L) on the OpenStats water atlas. Carried across panel years until annual municipal report panels are ingested.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Health · OpenStats
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
Growth · OpenStats
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
Hazards · OpenStats
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
Livability
MoneySense
Annual composite ranking of Canadian municipalities on economy, housing, crime, health, and weather.
4 editions · 2014–2018
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.
Marché public de Joliette sets up on Place Bourget every Saturday in season.
Hydro-Joliette appears as its own municipal service line beside permits and Civis.
Joliette Halte culturelle unites Festival de Lanaudière with Musée d'art de Joliette and Centre culturel Desjardins.
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.
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.
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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