Quebec · Civic arena
Sainte-Marie drinking water hardness is 262 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#228 of 343
47% City Score XP
5/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Sainte-Marie 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 Sainte-Marie water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Lachute · vs JolietteHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Sainte-Marie 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.
Sainte-Marie sits at City Score rank #228 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. Rising 64 places versus 2022 (#292 → #228).
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #121 of 327 at 111 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.
In the 2025 City Score edition, Sainte-Marie carries a City Score standing of 47% (rank #228 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 0 points below the Quebec peer average across 34 ranked cities. Within Quebec, Sainte-Marie ranks #19 of 34 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is broadband download (ISED seed tier) (standing 80%, rank #68 of 343, raw score 1000). The weakest observed pillar is drinking-water hardness (standing 8%, rank #27 of 343).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 262 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Sainte-Marie. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #228 of 343
5/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #27
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Rank #68
Rank #121
Rank #65
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Sainte-Marie 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 Sainte-Marie.
Sports and events complex featured on the city home. Default indoor booking address for mariverain weekends.
Named mountain-bike trail sectors on leisure maps. Locals give trail directions by these labels.
A dedicated municipal page tracks water levels on the rivière Chaudière.
Where Sainte-Marie sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Sainte-Marie is a Nouvelle-Beauce town where mariverains still check the niveau de l'eau de la rivière before a wet spring weekend. The municipal Chaudière level page is a staple, not a novelty, and flood forms sit beside ordinary water-restriction notices on the same citizen desk. Tourism invites visitors to douceurs mariveraines, but daily life also names autoroute Robert-Cliche (A-73) and route du Président-Kennedy (173) as the real approaches, plus Route de la Beauce for the scenic loop toward neighbouring towns.
Centre Caztel anchors sports and events, and Cité Sainte-Marie labels the education-sport-culture campus area on the city home so parents and coaches share one place name. Mountain-bike maps split into secteur PBV and réservoir Bisson, so trail talk stays specific instead of vague forest directions. SAMAR (Société de l'arbre mariveraine) and TEDxSainteMarie show up on leisure menus, which is a tidy mix of tree society and local talks. MRC de La Nouvelle-Beauce framing keeps Sainte-Marie tied to the wider Beauce county map that Beauce Média also covers.
Mariverain identity stays town-scale even when regional news arrives: Chaudière levels, Caztel bookings, bike sectors, and highway exits. Sainte-Marie sells itself as the Nouvelle-Beauce stop where river watch, A-73 and route 173 approaches, and douceurs mariveraines share one municipal desk. Georgiens have their Beauce metro down the road; mariverains have the Chaudière gauge and Centre Caztel as the weekly reference points When the Chaudière rises, mariverains refresh the municipal level page the way other towns refresh a weather radar.
Drawn from Ville de Sainte-Marie, Beauce Média.
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 Sainte-Marie 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.
2 editions · 2017–2018
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
Mariverain is the demonym used in municipal Écrits mariverains and calendars.
A dedicated municipal page tracks water levels on the rivière Chaudière.
Autoroute Robert-Cliche (A-73) and route du Président-Kennedy (173) are the named access corridors on the discover page.
SAMAR is the Société de l'arbre mariveraine tree society listed by the city.
Sports and events complex featured on the city home. Default indoor booking address for mariverain weekends.
Education-sport-culture campus area named on municipal pages, a cluster rather than a single building.
Named mountain-bike trail sectors on leisure maps. Locals give trail directions by these labels.
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