Sherbrooke

Sherbrooke sits at City Score rank #79 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. Dropping 27 places versus 2022 (#52 → #79).

Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #34 of 172 (2025); indoor radon rank #8 of 117 at 238 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #87 of 172 (10.91 mill rate). Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.

Sherbrooke is an Estrie city that still answers to Cantons-de-l'Est when older neighbours talk geography. La Tribune covers the cooperative paper desk for the region, so local news arrives with Estrie in the masthead rather than as a Montreal afterthought. Ville de Sherbrooke runs the civic machinery, while Destination Sherbrooke handles the visitor pitch. The hometown map is not a single boulevard; it is a university city that keeps a mountain inside the urban fence and expects residents to use both.

Parc du Mont-Bellevue is the outdoor shorthand. The Ville operates lifts, ski and bike traffic share the slopes, and mont J.-S.-Bourque gives the park a named summit locals can point to without pulling out a trail app. Université de Sherbrooke shares park ownership in the way Bellevue's own site describes it, which is a useful tell: the mountain is civic and campus at once. Club nautique de Sherbrooke keeps water sport on the tourism map when Bellevue has too much ice, too much mud, or simply too many people on the same trail.

That mix is the Sherbrooke habit. You can hear La Tribune argue municipal files in the morning and still plan an evening climb or ski run without leaving town. Destination Sherbrooke sells the same geography outward, but residents already treat Bellevue as infrastructure, not a weekend escape borrowed from somewhere else. The OpenStats City Score puts Sherbrooke at rank 77 of 125 in 2026. The local portrait stays simpler: Estrie desk, Cantons memory, university partnership on the mountain, and working lifts that make winter and summer both feel local.