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Libraries · Brownsburg-Chatham

Fewer visits per person served than 92% of Quebec’s town libraries: Brownsburg-Chatham public library counts 1.2

Brownsburg-Chatham public library serves 8,146 people from 2 branches. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to Quebec’s public library statistics.

C−Civic life#315 of 507 in Quebec
Visits a year
9,487
1.2 per person served
Libraries
2
Charities
7
0.8 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

Behind Brownsburg-Chatham’s civic life grade

With a C−, Brownsburg-Chatham ranks #315 of 507 Quebec towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Brownsburg-Chatham: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.

C−
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Brownsburg-Chatham’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

Brownsburg-Chatham mailing addresses hold 7 registered charities

Per 1,000 residents that makes 0.8; the median is 1.4 for Quebec towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. 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%

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.

A year at the library

About 26 visits a day

The year 2025 at Brownsburg-Chatham public library, in the library’s own counts.

9,487
in-person visits
1.2 per person served
Every week182visits
8,146 people served
The libraries

2 public libraries in Brownsburg-Chatham

Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Brownsburg-Chatham.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Library locations. A library listed by both OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada appears once; campus, school and private ones are left off.

Questions about the library and civic life in Brownsburg-Chatham

Does Brownsburg-Chatham have a public library?

Yes, 2: Bibliothèque De Pointe-Au-Chêne (Grenville-Sur-La-Rouge) and Brownsburg Bibliotheque.

How busy is Brownsburg-Chatham public library?

It counted 9,487 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).