Photo: Jeangagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0Laval public library draws 7.3 visits per person served, ahead of 87% of Quebec’s town libraries
Duvernay is served by Laval public library, the library of all of Laval, so the figures here are the city’s, for 458,981 people. These are 2025 figures, the library’s own yearly return to Quebec’s statistics.
CCivic life#199 of 507 in QuebecDuvernay’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Duvernay grades C: #199 of the 507 towns graded in Quebec. All three civic life inputs exist for Duvernay: 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.
Laval mailing addresses hold 425 registered charities
There is no count for Duvernay on its own: the charities are those of all of Laval. It works out to 0.9 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%
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.
About 9,128 visits a day
The year 2025 at Laval public library, in the library’s own counts.
Duvernay’s 2 public libraries
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Duvernay.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Tourists, commuters and neighbours all add to the visits, and nobody records which of them live in Duvernay.
Questions about the library and civic life in Duvernay
Does Duvernay have a public library?
Yes, 2: Bibliothèque Germaine-Guèvremont and Bibliothèque Marius-Barbeau.
How busy is Laval public library?
It counted 3,331,901 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).