Photo: Gaétan Veillette · CC BY-SA 4.0Contrecoeur’s public library is Bibliotheque De Contrecoeur
Bibliotheque De Contrecoeur serves 10,545 people from a single building. Visits ran to 1.9 per person served in 2025. The figures come from Quebec’s public library statistics for 2025, as the library filed them.
DCivic life#443 of 507 in QuebecBehind Contrecoeur’s civic life grade
With a D, Contrecoeur ranks #443 of 507 Quebec towns on civic life. Contrecoeur 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.
7 registered charities give a Contrecoeur mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 0.7; 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%
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.
Some 54 visits on an average day
What Bibliotheque De Contrecoeur counted in 2025, as the library reported it.
Contrecoeur’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Contrecoeur.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Public library locations are taken from OpenStreetMap and a 2020 Statistics Canada inventory, merged where both list one place.
Questions about the library and civic life in Contrecoeur
Does Contrecoeur have a public library?
Yes: Bibliotheque De Contrecoeur.
How busy is Bibliotheque De Contrecoeur?
It counted 19,889 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).