Quebec · Civic arena
Levis drinking water hardness is 120 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#146 of 343
52% City Score XP
5/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Levis 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 Levis water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Shawinigan · vs Sorel-TracyHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Levis 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.
Levis sits at City Score rank #146 with a standing of 52%, 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. Rising 19 places versus 2022 (#165 → #146).
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #82 of 327 at 120 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.
Among Canadian cities on the hub, Levis carries a City Score standing of 52% (rank #146 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 5 points above the Quebec peer average across 34 ranked cities. Within Quebec, Levis ranks #6 of 34 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is broadband download (ISED seed tier) (standing 81%, rank #65 of 343, raw score 1000). The weakest observed pillar is seismic hazard (standing 12%, rank #41 of 343).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 120 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Levis. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #146 of 343
5/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #264
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Rank #65
Rank #82
Rank #41
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Levis 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 Levis.
Waterfront trail that Lévis puts on the home page and in works alerts. It is the local answer to a river promenade without borrowing Quebec
Cultural centre listed in the sports and leisure directory. An indoor counterweight to Anses walks and Je vis Lévis outdoor nights.
Parcours des Anses is featured on the city home hero and in temporary closure notices.
Where Levis sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Lévis faces Quebec City across the water and builds its day around that crossing. The Traverse Québec-Lévis is the commute metaphor, Quai Paquet is the waterfront checkpoint, and the Parcours des Anses is the path Lévisiens name when they mean a river walk. STLévis handles the bus side, including the Navette Paquet, so transit talk stays local instead of borrowing Montreal STM vocabulary. 311 Lévis is the service desk brand when a sidewalk or a bin goes wrong.
Sectors keep their old parish names in the works list. Saint-Romuald and Saint-Étienne-de-Lauzon show up when Boulevard Guillaume-Couture or Rue Saint-Laurent go under construction, and residents track those corridors the way other cities track a ring road. Summer branding runs as Je vis Lévis, with the Centre culturel de Lévis on the leisure map for indoor nights. When the Grands Feux Loto-Québec light the sky, Lévis publishes its own traffic alerts; the fireworks may face the capital, but the detours land on this shore. Route des Rivières works in Saint-Étienne-de-Lauzon keep the parish-sector map alive even as Lévis sells itself through waterfront recreation and ferry convenience.
On the OpenStats City Score for 2025, Lévis sits at rank 96 of 343. The hometown read is south-shore ferry-and-path geography: Anses for the evening walk, Quai Paquet for the waterfront file, and a skyline that belongs to the neighbours across the river without turning Lévis into a footnote. STLévis and the traverse keep the commute conversation bilingual in geography even when the paperwork is French.
Drawn from Ville de Lévis, STLévis, Société des traversiers du Québec.
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 Levis 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
OpenStats
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
OpenStats
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
The Globe and Mail
2023 data partnership with Environics Analytics ranking 439 Canadian communities on ten livability categories.
Single edition · 2023
Only one published edition places Levis in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
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.
Ville de Lévis lists the Traverse Québec-Lévis under transport and infrastructures beside STLévis.
Parcours des Anses is featured on the city home hero and in temporary closure notices.
Je vis Lévis is the municipal summer cultural campaign name.
Grands Feux Loto-Québec trigger dedicated Lévis-side traffic entraves.
Waterfront trail that Lévis puts on the home page and in works alerts. It is the local answer to a river promenade without borrowing Quebec City's tourist map.
Municipal quay with recurring status updates from city hall. Pair it with the Navette Paquet name on the STLévis network and the waterfront file stays consistent.
Cultural centre listed in the sports and leisure directory. An indoor counterweight to Anses walks and Je vis Lévis outdoor nights.
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