At 8.4 visits per person served, Gatineau public library is busier than 89% of Quebec’s town libraries
Gatineau public library serves the whole of Gatineau, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 302,616 people, Des Vallées among them. The figures come from Quebec’s public library statistics for 2025, as the library filed them.
C+Civic life#164 of 507 in QuebecDes Vallées’s civic life grade, input by input
Des Vallées gets a C+ for civic life, #164 of 507 towns graded in Quebec. Des Vallées 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.
354 registered charities give a Gatineau mailing address
There is no count for Des Vallées on its own: the charities are those of all of Gatineau. Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.2; 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.
25.2%
Across Quebec, 25.2% of people volunteered through an organization in 2023, a provincial estimate with a likely range of 24.0% to 26.4%; the lowest province sits at 25.2% and the highest at 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Some 6,930 visits on an average day
The year 2025 at Gatineau public library, in the library’s own counts.
The closest is 5.4 km from Des Vallées
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Des Vallées.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from Des Vallées or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
Questions about the library and civic life in Des Vallées
Does Des Vallées have a public library?
No, but Bibliothèque Docteur-Jean-Lorrain in Rivière-Blanche is the nearest public library to Des Vallées.
How busy is Gatineau public library?
It counted 2,529,593 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).