The nearest public library to Austin is Bibliothèque D'Eastman, 5.7 km away

No library board reports for Austin alone: its libraries belong to a county or regional system, whose figures cover many towns.

C⁺Civic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteering

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Civic life grade

Austin’s civic life grade, input by input

Austin gets a C+ for civic life. Austin has charities and volunteering for a civic life grade, though not library visits, and two of the three are enough.

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Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Austin’s overall grade.

–Library visitsNo library board of its own B⁺Charities1 per 1,000 · Quebec towns 1.4 · Canada 1.4 C⁻Volunteering25.2% of residents · all of Quebec, 2023

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

2 registered charities give a Austin mailing address

It works out to 1 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Quebec town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. 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.

Volunteering

25.2%

The 2023 survey gives Quebec one volunteering rate for all its towns, 25.2% (between 24.0% and 26.4%), while provinces run from 25.2% at the low end to 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

Nearest libraries

The closest is 5.7 km from Austin

Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Austin.

5.7kmBibliothèque D'EastmanEastmanDirections →9.4kmBibliothèque De EastmanDirections →9.6kmBibliothèque Municipale MemphrémagogMagogDirections →11kmBibliothèque De Magog (Secteur Omerville)MagogDirections →20kmBibliothèque Commémorative PettesLac-BromeDirections →

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

Library locations. The map joins OpenStreetMap with Statistics Canada’s 2020 cultural facilities list and leaves out school, college and private libraries.

Questions about the library and civic life in Austin

Does Austin have a public library?

No, but Bibliothèque D'Eastman in Eastman is the nearest public library to Austin.

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).