Photo: SDCJ · Public domainBibliothèque Rina-Lasnier logs 75.2 visits per person served, more than all but a few of Quebec’s town libraries
Bibliothèque Rina-Lasnier has one location for the 22,333 people it serves. The figures come from Quebec’s public library statistics for 2025, as the library filed them.
A−Civic life#1 of 507 in QuebecBehind Joliette’s civic life grade
Civic life in Joliette grades A−: #1 of the 507 towns graded in Quebec. Joliette 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.
97 registered charities are based in Joliette, by mailing address
That is 4.3 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Quebec town and 1.4 across Canada. 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 4,601 visits a day
Everything counted at Bibliothèque Rina-Lasnier in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
Joliette’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Joliette.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A busy library may owe some of its visits to people who live outside Joliette; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in Joliette
Does Joliette have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque Rina-Lasnier.
How busy is Bibliothèque Rina-Lasnier?
It counted 1,679,535 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).