Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0Candiac’s public library is Bibliothèque de Candiac
Bibliothèque de Candiac serves 24,445 people from a single building. Visits ran to 3.1 per person served in 2025. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to Quebec’s public library statistics.
DCivic life#357 of 507 in QuebecBehind Candiac’s civic life grade
With a D, Candiac ranks #357 of 507 Quebec towns on civic life. Candiac 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.
17 registered charities give a Candiac mailing address
It works out to 0.7 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.
25.2%
For 2023, the provincial survey estimates that 25.2% of people in Quebec volunteered formally (likely 24.0% to 26.4%); among the ten provinces the rate goes from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Some 206 visits on an average day
The year 2025 at Bibliothèque de Candiac, in the library’s own counts.
Candiac’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Candiac.
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 Candiac
Does Candiac have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque de Candiac.
How busy is Bibliothèque de Candiac?
It counted 75,238 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).