More visits per person served than 89% of Quebec’s town libraries: Gatineau public library counts 8.4
The library figures on this page are Gatineau’s: Gatineau public library serves all 302,616 people of the city, Les Rapides 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 QuebecWhat Les Rapides’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Les Rapides grades C+: #164 of the 507 towns graded in Quebec. Les Rapides 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 Les Rapides 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. 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%
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.
About 6,930 visits a day
Everything counted at Gatineau public library in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
The nearest library is 3 km from Les Rapides
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Les Rapides.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A library’s visits include people from neighbouring towns and visitors; the statistics don’t say how many come from Les Rapides itself.
Questions about the library and civic life in Les Rapides
Does Les Rapides have a public library?
There isn’t one in Les Rapides; people there use libraries such as Bibliothèque de Riviera, in Rivière-Gatineau.
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).