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Libraries · Amos

Amos has one public library, Bibliothèque D'Amos

A single building, Bibliothèque D'Amos, serves 12,808 people. Visits ran to 3.4 per person served in 2025. These are 2025 figures, the library’s own yearly return to Quebec’s statistics.

C+Civic life#110 of 507 in Quebec
Visits a year
44,184
3.4 per person served
Libraries
1
Charities
29
2.3 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

What Amos’s civic life grade weighs

Amos gets a C+ for civic life, #110 of 507 towns graded in Quebec. A civic life grade combines library visits per resident, registered charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate, and all three exist for Amos.

C+
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Amos’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

29 registered charities are based in Amos, by mailing address

It works out to 2.3 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Quebec town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.

Volunteering

25.2%

25.2% of people in Quebec did formal volunteering in 2023, a province-wide estimate between 24.0% and 26.4%; across the ten provinces the rate runs from 25.2% to 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

A year at the library

Some 121 visits on an average day

The year 2025 at Bibliothèque D'Amos, in the library’s own counts.

44,184
in-person visits
3.4 per person served
Every week850visits
12,808 people served
The libraries

Amos’s public library

Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Amos.

How to read these numbers

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 Amos

Does Amos have a public library?

Yes: Bibliothèque D'Amos.

How busy is Bibliothèque D'Amos?

It counted 44,184 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).