Photo: Gaétan Veillette · CC BY-SA 4.0Bécancour’s public library works from 8 branches
The population Bécancour public library serves is 14,555. In 2025 it logged 3.1 visits for every person it serves. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to Quebec’s public library statistics.
C−Civic life#305 of 507 in QuebecWhat Bécancour’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Bécancour grades C−: #305 of the 507 towns graded in Quebec. Bécancour has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Bécancour mailing addresses hold 17 registered charities
Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.1; the median is 1.4 for Quebec towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
25.2%
Between 24.0% and 26.4% of people in Quebec volunteered formally in 2023, 25.2% at the estimate’s middle; that is one figure for the province, which ranges from 25.2% to 40.3% nationally.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
About 122 visits a day
The year 2025 at Bécancour public library, in the library’s own counts.
Bécancour’s 8 public libraries
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Bécancour.
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 Bécancour
Does Bécancour have a public library?
Yes, 8: Bibliothèque Claude-Bouchard, Bibliothèque de Bécancour, Bibliothèque Municipale - ville de Bécancour, Bibliotheque Secteur Gentilly and 4 more.
How busy is Bécancour public library?
It counted 44,543 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).