Photo: Johny-le-cowboy · CC BY-SA 3.0Fewer visits per person served than 81% of Quebec’s town libraries: Bibliothèque de Dolbeau-Mistassini counts 1.6
A single building, Bibliothèque de Dolbeau-Mistassini, serves 13,746 people. These are 2025 figures, the library’s own yearly return to Quebec’s statistics.
CCivic life#250 of 507 in QuebecBehind Dolbeau-Mistassini’s civic life grade
Civic life in Dolbeau-Mistassini grades C: #250 of the 507 towns graded in Quebec. A civic life grade combines library visits per resident, registered charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate, and all three exist for Dolbeau-Mistassini.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
29 registered charities are based in Dolbeau-Mistassini, by mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 2.1; 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%
One figure covers all of Quebec: in 2023, 25.2% of its people gave time to an organization (between 24.0% and 26.4%), against a provincial range of 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Some 60 visits on an average day
What Bibliothèque de Dolbeau-Mistassini counted in 2025, as the library reported it.
Dolbeau-Mistassini’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Dolbeau-Mistassini.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Locations merge two sources, OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, without school, college or hospital libraries.
Questions about the library and civic life in Dolbeau-Mistassini
Does Dolbeau-Mistassini have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque de Dolbeau-Mistassini.
How busy is Bibliothèque de Dolbeau-Mistassini?
It counted 21,826 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).