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OpenStats City Score, ranking history, and local readings for Saint-Hyacinthe.
Saint-Hyacinthe sits at City Score rank #81 with a standing of 51%, 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 #71 of 172 (2025); indoor radon rank #42 of 117 at 126 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #72 of 172 (11.68 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 Saint-Hyacinthe.
Published residential mill-rate context for Saint-Hyacinthe.
Named recreation park on the municipal installations list. A default family outing without needing tourism copy.
Municipal cultural centre brand tied to the Pôle culturel maskoutain leisure menu.
Expo agricole is the summer fair that puts the city into fair mode.
Where Saint-Hyacinthe sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Saint-Hyacinthe is a maskoutain city that rearranges itself around Expo agricole the way other towns rearrange around hockey playoffs. When fair season nears, municipal notices talk about dressing the city for the agricultural show, and Le Courrier de Saint-Hyacinthe keeps producer stories in the same local register. Parc Les Salines is the named recreation park people list without a brochure, and summer heat notices still point to piscine Laurier and piscine Christ-Roi for outdoor swimming hours when watering bans tighten.
Culture has a maskoutain label too. The Pôle culturel maskoutain and Centre culturel Humania Assurance sit on leisure menus beside Beaux Mardis de Casimir, the municipal summer series that keeps Tuesday nights booked. Saint-Hyacinthe Technopole handles economic development and tourism promotion, while the Centre de Congrès de Saint-Hyacinthe keeps the city on the congress map outside Montreal and Quebec City. Transit chatter in the Courrier still names corridors like Girouard Ouest when stops move, so mobility news stays street-level.
Day to day, Maskoutains live between fairgrounds, congress halls, and neighbourhood pools. Water-restriction weeks and heat-wave pool hours share the homepage with cultural-centre bookings and Technopole announcements. Expo agricole is not only an event; it is a civic mood that rewrites traffic and volunteer lists for a stretch of summer. Saint-Hyacinthe sells itself as the maskoutain hub where the fair, Technopole shorthand, and Parc Les Salines remain the place names you give a visitor who asks how the week actually runs Maskoutain weekends still bounce between Expo agricole prep, Humania bookings, and a swim at piscine Laurier when the Courrier is quiet.
Drawn from Ville de Saint-Hyacinthe, Le Courrier de Saint-Hyacinthe.
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
Health · OpenStats
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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
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 Saint-Hyacinthe 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.
Maskoutain is the demonym used on municipal cultural pages and in Courrier coverage.
Expo agricole is the summer fair that puts the city into fair mode.
Saint-Hyacinthe Technopole is the economic development and tourism promotion arm.
Beaux Mardis de Casimir is a municipal summer event series named on the city home.
Named recreation park on the municipal installations list. A default family outing without needing tourism copy.
Large congress and exhibition centre that keeps the city on regional event calendars beyond Montreal.
Municipal cultural centre brand tied to the Pôle culturel maskoutain leisure menu.
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