Photo: Élie Gagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0Fermont public library logs 1.8 visits per person served, fewer than 75% of Quebec’s town libraries
Fermont public library serves 2,154 people from a single building. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to Quebec’s public library statistics.
C−Civic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteeringBehind Fermont’s civic life grade
Fermont gets a C− for civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Fermont: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
4 registered charities are based in Fermont, by mailing address
It works out to 1.9 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Quebec town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. The CRA files each charity under its mailing address, so a service town collects its region’s charities and a suburb or rural municipality few.
25.2%
Volunteering here is a provincial number: 25.2% of people across Quebec in 2023, likely 24.0% to 26.4%, set in a ten-province range of 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Some 10 visits on an average day
What Fermont public library counted in 2025, as the library reported it.
Fermont’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Fermont, as the crow flies.
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 Fermont
Does Fermont have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque.
How busy is Fermont public library?
It counted 3,821 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).