Photo: Veillg1 · CC0Bibliothèque Municipale de Lachute logs 9.1 visits per person served, more than 91% of Quebec’s town libraries
Bibliothèque Municipale de Lachute serves 15,292 people from a single building. The figures come from Quebec’s public library statistics for 2025, as the library filed them.
B+Civic life#4 of 507 in QuebecWhat Lachute’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Lachute grades B+: #4 of the 507 towns graded in Quebec. All three civic life inputs exist for Lachute: 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.
36 registered charities are based in Lachute, by mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 2.3; 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%
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.
About 379 visits a day
Everything counted at Bibliothèque Municipale de Lachute in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
Lachute’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Lachute, as the crow flies.
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 Lachute itself.
Questions about the library and civic life in Lachute
Does Lachute have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque Municipale de Lachute.
How busy is Bibliothèque Municipale de Lachute?
It counted 138,470 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).