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OpenStats City Score, ranking history, and local readings for Rivière-du-Loup.
City Score #149 (2022) → #162 (2025)
Rivière-du-Loup sits at City Score rank #162 with a standing of 38%, from 7 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. Dropping 13 places versus 2022 (#149 → #162).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #127 of 172 (2025); residential mill rate rank #99 of 172 (10.15 mill rate). Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.
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Documented pro, junior, university, and high-school teams tied to Rivière-du-Loup.
Published residential mill-rate context for Rivière-du-Loup.
The open-air market the city puts on its front page when it wants residents shopping local. Bring a basket and expect the usual summer
The ferry link the city defends in its own menu language. Locals treat the crossing as infrastructure, not a souvenir.
The Marché public is featured on the municipal homepage as a regular shopping stop.
Where Rivière-du-Loup sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Rivière-du-Loup keeps the hyphen and the ferry attitude. On the municipal site, Notre traverse sits beside Portrait under living in town, with the blunt line that the city holds on to its crossing. That is not tourism fluff. It is how locals talk about the water link that still shapes weekend plans, family visits, and regional errands across the Lower St. Lawrence. Downtown, the Hôtel de ville patrimonial anchors civic life, while boulevard de l'Hôtel-de-Ville shows up whenever pavement crews, karting weekends, or event traffic take over the news brief.
Summer here runs through programmation estivale: free outdoor shows, family Tuesdays, open-air cinema, discovery midday music, and SkateFest on the recreation calendar. The Marché public gets its own homepage push, the kind of basket-and-stall habit that needs no translation for residents who already know which morning feels busiest. Café créatif joins the cultural circuit when exhibitions fill the warmer months. Even the aéroport weather widget on the city services list reminds you this is a stop with planes and ferries in the same mental map, watched by the same Radio-Canada Bas-Saint-Laurent desk that covers the shore.
The hometown character is practical and a little stubborn. Keep the traverse, shop the Marché public, and watch boulevard de l'Hôtel-de-Ville when the city digs it up again. Rivière-du-Loup reads as a ferry-minded hub that still puts free summer nights on the calendar and expects you to know the Hôtel de ville patrimonial without a map pin or a travel-writer adjective. That ferry-first framing is what keeps Rivière-du-Loup from swapping cleanly with any other Bas-Saint-Laurent stop.
Drawn from Ville de Rivière-du-Loup, Radio-Canada Bas-Saint-Laurent.
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.
Connectivity · OpenStats
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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
Construction · OpenStats
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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
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). 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
Safety · OpenStats
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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
Water · OpenStats
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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
sports · OpenStats
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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
Only one published edition places Rivière-du-Loup in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Growth · OpenStats
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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
Property tax · OpenStats
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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
Hazards · OpenStats
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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 Rivière-du-Loup keeps a Notre traverse menu item that insists the ferry link matters.
The Marché public is featured on the municipal homepage as a regular shopping stop.
Boulevard de l'Hôtel-de-Ville appears in municipal roadwork and traffic notices.
SkateFest sits on the city recreation news list beside free summer programmation estivale.
The open-air market the city puts on its front page when it wants residents shopping local. Bring a basket and expect the usual summer rhythm.
Heritage city hall on the municipal living-in list. It is the civic landmark that pairs with boulevard de l'Hôtel-de-Ville talk.
The ferry link the city defends in its own menu language. Locals treat the crossing as infrastructure, not a souvenir.
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