Photo: Johny-le-cowboy · CC BY-SA 3.0At 1.7 visits per person served, Alma public library is quieter than 77% of Quebec’s town libraries
The 30,889 people Alma public library serves have 3 branches to choose from. The figures come from Quebec’s public library statistics for 2025, as the library filed them.
C−Civic life#276 of 507 in QuebecBehind Alma’s civic life grade
Civic life in Alma grades C−: #276 of the 507 towns graded in Quebec. All three civic life inputs exist for Alma: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
60 registered charities give a Alma mailing address
That is 2 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Quebec town and 1.4 across Canada. The CRA files each charity under its mailing address, so a service town collects its region’s charities and a suburb or rural municipality few.
25.2%
Formal volunteering is measured only for the province: 25.2% of Quebec’s people in 2023, give or take (24.0% to 26.4%), with the provinces between 25.2% and 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Some 140 visits on an average day
The year 2025 at Alma public library, in the library’s own counts.
Alma’s 3 public libraries
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Alma.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Locations merge two sources, OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, without school, college or hospital libraries.
Questions about the library and civic life in Alma
Does Alma have a public library?
Yes, 3: Bibliotheque D'Alma, Bibliothèque De Delisle and Bibliothèque Publique Saint-Coeur-De-Marie.
How busy is Alma public library?
It counted 51,063 in-person visits in 2025.
Library statistics: Statistiques des bibliothèques publiques du Québec, 2025. Library locations: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Statistics Canada, Open Database of Cultural and Art Facilities (2020). Charities: Canada Revenue Agency, List of charities (2024), charitable organizations only.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).