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Sherbrooke drinking water hardness is 277 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.

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Sherbrooke

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44XP
#272

#272 of 343

44% City Score XP

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6/8 pillars on the board

44%#272

Decade trail

Sherbrooke packs 6 of eight open-data pillars into its composite standing. Tap a rival below to see how the hometown stacks up head-to-head.

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Sherbrooke drinking water

Regional estimate from nearest municipal sample

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.

Hardness
277 mg/L
very hard
pH
7.5
Lead
0.5 μg/L

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Watershed to tap · system map

How Sherbrooke's water works

Source, treatment, and distribution for Sherbrooke from municipal and provincial water records. Open the animated map for the full watershed-to-tap diagram — no nested topic navigation here.

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Local numbers for Sherbrooke

Permits, tax, internet, radon, hazards, drinking water, and sports rankings where a CHL hometown applies.

PermitsBuilding permits in SherbrookeTaxBrowseProperty taxInternetInternet in SherbrookeRadonRadon in SherbrookeHazardsHazards in SherbrookeWaterWater quality in SherbrookeSportsSports in Sherbrooke

Sports

Junior hockey in Sherbrooke

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Team
Sherbrooke Phoenix
League
QMJHL
Points %
52.2%

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How Sherbrooke scores

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Sherbrooke sits at City Score rank #272 with a standing of 44%, from 6 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 97 places versus 2022 (#175 → #272).

Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #8 of 327 at 238 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.

Against the national corpus, Sherbrooke carries a City Score standing of 44% (rank #272 of 343) with 6 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 3 points below the Quebec peer average across 34 ranked cities. Within Quebec, Sherbrooke ranks #23 of 34 on City Score.

The strongest signal in the current chart is police-reported crime severity (standing 93%, rank #95 of 102, 50.3 CSI). The weakest observed pillar is indoor radon (standing 2%, rank #8 of 327). Crime severity uses the Statistics Canada police-service CSI mapped to Sherbrooke, Quebec (table 35100026), not a regional proxy.

Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 277 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Sherbrooke. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.

#272
Arena rank (of 343)
44%
City Score
6
Pillars observed
Dropping−97
vs 2022
#175 → #272

Arena loadout

Topic XP bars

Arena rank #272 of 343

City Score

6/8 pillars · main XP bar

44%#272
Drinking water

Pillar avg · hardness #10

21%
Building permits

No placement

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Internet

Rank #77

78%
Radon

Rank #8

2%
Hazards

Rank #99

29%
Property tax

No placement

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Sherbrooke pillar standing

Eight equal-weight City Score pillars, 2025 panel year.

TaxPermitsNetRadonWaterHazardsGrowthCrime

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

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Hometown notes

City profile

Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.

Sherbrooke in brief

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 258 of 343 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.

Drawn from Ville de Sherbrooke, Parc du Mont-Bellevue, Destination Sherbrooke, La Tribune.

City Score over time

City Score from 2016–2025 across eight open-data pillars. Individual study placements are listed in the panels below.

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OpenStats City Score

Rankings for Sherbrooke

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

OpenStats Broadband Download Speeds

OpenStats

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

#77
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 931
0501002016201720182019202020212022202320242025

Original source · Full edition

Sports · OpenStats

OpenStats CHL Points Percentage

OpenStats

Canadian Hockey League (OHL, WHL, QMJHL) member cities ranked by regular-season points percentage. One CHL team maps to each OpenStats hometown slug; standings snapshot is curated from public league tables.

Single edition · 2025

#32
Published · 2025 · of 45
Score 0.522

Only one published edition places Sherbrooke in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.

Original source · Full edition

Composite · OpenStats

OpenStats City Score

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

#272
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.44
0501002016201720182019202020212022202320242025

Original source · Full edition

Safety · OpenStats

OpenStats Crime Severity Index

OpenStats

Communities ranked by Statistics Canada Crime Severity Index at police-service grain (Tables 35-10-0026-01 and 35-10-0063-01 for British Columbia). Rank 1 is highest CSI (worse). Cities without a police-service match are not listed; the safety pillar scores at median standing on City Score. Hometown pages name the police service and reference year.

CSI from Sherbrooke, Quebec (2025, Table 35-10-0026-01).

10 editions · 2016–2025

#95
Latest · 2025 · of 102
Score 50.25
0501002016201720182019202020212022202320242025

Original source · Full edition

Water · OpenStats

OpenStats Drinking Water Hardness

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

#10
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 277
0501002016201720182019202020212022202320242025

Original source · Full edition

Health · OpenStats

OpenStats Highest Indoor Radon

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

#8
Latest · 2025 · of 327
Score 238.2
0501002016201720182019202020212022202320242025

Original source · Full edition

Sports · OpenStats

OpenStats Local Sports Depth

OpenStats

Hometowns with a mapped junior hockey franchise ranked by local sports depth: league tier (CHL member leagues = 1.0, MHL = 0.65) multiplied by regular-season points percentage. Surfaces cities with both a franchise and a strong standings year; not a City Score pillar input.

Single edition · 2025

#32
Published · 2025 · of 49
Score 0.522

Only one published edition places Sherbrooke in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.

Original source · Full edition

Growth · OpenStats

OpenStats Population Growth

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

#245
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.004747223965296156
0501002016201720182019202020212022202320242025

Original source · Full edition

Hazards · OpenStats

OpenStats Seismic Hazard (PGA)

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

#99
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.083
0501002016201720182019202020212022202320242025

Original source · Full edition

Worth knowing in Sherbrooke

Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.

  • La Tribune brands itself as the cooperative media of Estrie, which is how Sherbrooke hears regional news framed.

    La Tribune

  • Parc du Mont-Bellevue notes shared ownership with Université de Sherbrooke while the Ville operates the lifts.

    Parc du Mont-Bellevue

  • mont J.-S.-Bourque is the named summit inside the Bellevue park system locals can cite without a brochure.

    Parc du Mont-Bellevue

  • Club nautique de Sherbrooke keeps water sport on the Destination Sherbrooke outing list beside mountain days.

    Destination Sherbrooke

Places to see

Parc du Mont-Bellevue

Urban mountain park for ski and bike, with municipal lifts and a campus ownership tie. It is Sherbrooke's everyday outdoors address, not a far-away resort.

Club nautique de Sherbrooke

The water-club counterweight to Bellevue days. When the mountain is closed or crowded, the nautical map still has a named home.

Université de Sherbrooke

Campus partner in the Bellevue park story and a standing presence in how the city explains itself. Sherbrooke reads as a university town that kept its mountain.

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