Quebec · Civic arena
Salaberry-de-Valleyfield drinking water hardness is 154 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#116 of 343
53% City Score XP
5/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Salaberry-de-Valleyfield 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 Salaberry-de-Valleyfield water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Amos · vs DrummondvilleHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Salaberry-de-Valleyfield 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.
Salaberry-de-Valleyfield sits at City Score rank #116 with a standing of 53%, 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 52 places versus 2022 (#168 → #116).
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #213 of 327 at 92 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, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield carries a City Score standing of 53% (rank #116 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 6 points above the Quebec peer average across 34 ranked cities. Within Quebec, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield ranks #4 of 34 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is population growth (standing 75%, rank #88 of 343, +2.0% annual growth). The weakest observed pillar is seismic hazard (standing 8%, rank #28 of 343).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 154 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Salaberry-de-Valleyfield. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #116 of 343
5/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #189
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Rank #122
Rank #213
Rank #28
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Salaberry-de-Valleyfield 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 Salaberry-de-Valleyfield.
Park reached via the pivoting-bridge approach from Victoria and Fabrique. A named green stop once you clear downtown traffic.
Route 132 bridges named in transport notices along boulevard Hébert. Summer driving talk often starts here.
The city announces summer race season as mode Régates.
Where Salaberry-de-Valleyfield sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Salaberry-de-Valleyfield sits entre fleuve et lac, and locals shorten the long official name to Valleyfield whenever Festival des arts de Valleyfield or summer race season comes up. Municipal copy pairs fleuve Saint-Laurent with lac Saint-François as the two flanks of the place, so weather talk often starts with which shore is busy. When July arrives, the city announces mode Régates the way other towns announce festival week: schedules change, streets fill, and waterfront traffic becomes the week's main argument at Accès Valleyfield counters.
Downtown habits are specific. Rue du Marché turns pedestrian for the warm months and becomes the default evening strip. Parc Delpha-Sauvé is the park you reach after the pivoting bridge talk from Victoria and Fabrique. Roadwork seasons name boulevard Sainte-Marie, boulevard Hébert on route 132, Ponts Masson, and Chemin du Bord-de-l'Eau, so detour gossip stays street-level instead of generic construction complaints. Accès Valleyfield is the municipal access-card brand on quick links for people who actually use the facilities.
Industrial memory still shows in civic news when the former Goodyear site changes hands, which keeps reuse files next to arts programming. Régates season and Festival des arts de Valleyfield share the calendar with those industrial updates. Salaberry-de-Valleyfield sells itself as the Valleyfield stop between river and lake where mode Régates, rue du Marché evenings, and Ponts Masson traffic reports all sound like hometown weather rather than tourism copy Between Régates weekends, Valleyfield traffic talk returns to boulevard Hébert, Ponts Masson, and whether rue du Marché is open to cars again.
Drawn from Ville de Salaberry-de-Valleyfield.
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 Salaberry-de-Valleyfield 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
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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
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
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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.
Municipal pages describe the city as sitting between fleuve Saint-Laurent and lac Saint-François.
The city announces summer race season as mode Régates.
Festival des arts de Valleyfield uses the short Valleyfield form in its name.
Rue du Marché becomes a seasonal pedestrian street downtown.
Park reached via the pivoting-bridge approach from Victoria and Fabrique. A named green stop once you clear downtown traffic.
Seasonal pedestrian street that becomes the warm-weather downtown hangout strip.
Route 132 bridges named in transport notices along boulevard Hébert. Summer driving talk often starts here.
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