Photo: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.0More visits per person served than 89% of Quebec’s town libraries: Gatineau public library counts 8.4
Du Moulin is served by Gatineau public library, the library of all of Gatineau, so the figures here are the city’s, for 302,616 people. These are 2025 figures, the library’s own yearly return to Quebec’s statistics.
C+Civic life#164 of 507 in QuebecBehind Du Moulin’s civic life grade
Civic life in Du Moulin grades C+: #164 of the 507 towns graded in Quebec. Du Moulin 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 Du Moulin on its own: the charities are those of all of Gatineau. It works out to 1.2 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Quebec town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
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.
About 6,930 visits a day
What Gatineau public library counted in 2025, as the library reported it.
The nearest library is 2.9 km from Du Moulin
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Du Moulin.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Du Moulin’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Du Moulin
Does Du Moulin have a public library?
There isn’t one in Du Moulin; people there use libraries such as Bibliothèque Guy-Sanche, in La Cité.
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).