Quebec · Civic arena
Matane drinking water hardness is 271 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#343 of 343
33% City Score XP
5/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Matane 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 Matane water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Laval · vs Saint-GeorgesHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Matane 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.
Matane sits at City Score rank #343 with a standing of 33%, 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 #89 of 327 at 117 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.
On the latest OpenStats pass, Matane carries a City Score standing of 33% (rank #343 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 14 points below the Quebec peer average across 34 ranked cities. Within Quebec, Matane ranks #34 of 34 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is broadband download (ISED seed tier) (standing 43%, rank #197 of 343, raw score 383.1). The weakest observed pillar is drinking-water hardness (standing 5%, rank #18 of 343).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 271 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Matane. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #343 of 343
5/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #18
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Rank #197
Rank #89
Rank #57
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Matane 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 Matane.
Waterfront street that hosts the STQ gare fluviale. It is where Matane turns from coastal town into Côte-Nord gateway.
Named green space in the leisure directory beside skatepark and trail listings. A quieter counterweight to the ferry terminal bustle.
The STQ ferry terminal sits at 1410, rue de Matane-sur-Mer for the Matane-Baie-Comeau-Godbout crossing.
Where Matane sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Matane sells its geography without soft focus. The municipal line is Entre vents, marées et monts: fleuve on one side, mountains on the other, and tide talk that shows up in civil-security pages about grandes marées. Rue de Matane-sur-Mer holds the ferry terminal for the Traverse Matane–Baie-Comeau–Godbout, the STQ link that makes this waterfront a door to the Côte-Nord instead of a dead end on the map. Reservations matter; the crossing is infrastructure, not a novelty cruise.
Downtown leisure stays practical. Parc multirécréatif du centre-ville hosts mini-basket nights, Bibliothèque municipale de Matane runs Biblioclub summers under the Matanété label, and the piscine municipale posts its annual maintenance closure like any other service notice. Stade du Rempart and Stade Fournier keep the sports map named, while Parc des Îles covers the green-space side beside skatepark and trail listings. Fleurons du Québec grading returns each year, so landscaping is scored, not just admired from a lookout. Firehall staffing going 24 hours is the kind of service notice that lands harder in a coastal town than a glossy tourism line ever could.
Matane has no OpenStats City Score rank in the current datapack, so the profile stays with character over standings. The hometown read is a river town that catches the ferry, watches the tides, and fills Matanété calendars between marina weather and mountain weather without borrowing a bigger city's voice. Matane-sur-Mer is the street name you learn if you are driving onto the boat. The fleuve sets the mood before any slogan does.
Drawn from Ville de Matane, Ville de Matane découvrir, STQ Matane ferry.
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 Matane 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
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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). 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.
Ville de Matane frames itself Entre vents, marées et monts on the home about block.
The STQ ferry terminal sits at 1410, rue de Matane-sur-Mer for the Matane–Baie-Comeau–Godbout crossing.
Matanété appears as a municipal programming label on the summer activity list.
Coastal risk navigation includes inondations and grandes marées alongside fire prevention.
Waterfront street that hosts the STQ gare fluviale. It is where Matane turns from coastal town into Côte-Nord gateway.
Downtown multi-use park on the municipal activity calendar. Mini-basket nights keep it busy after ferry traffic fades.
Named green space in the leisure directory beside skatepark and trail listings. A quieter counterweight to the ferry terminal bustle.
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