Photo: Yanik Crépeau · CC BY-SA 3.0At 7.3 visits per person served, Bibliotheque Émile-Nelligan is busier than 87% of Quebec’s town libraries
The library figures on this page are Laval’s: Bibliotheque Émile-Nelligan serves all 458,981 people of the city, Laval-des-Rapides among them. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to Quebec’s public library statistics.
CCivic life#199 of 507 in QuebecBehind Laval-des-Rapides’s civic life grade
Civic life in Laval-des-Rapides grades C: #199 of the 507 towns graded in Quebec. All three civic life inputs exist for Laval-des-Rapides: 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.
425 registered charities are based in Laval, by mailing address
There is no count for Laval-des-Rapides on its own: the charities are those of all of Laval. That is 0.9 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Quebec town and 1.4 across Canada. 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%
Statistics Canada puts formal volunteering in Quebec at 25.2% in 2023, somewhere between 24.0% and 26.4%, for every town in the province alike; provinces range from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Some 9,128 visits on an average day
What Bibliotheque Émile-Nelligan counted in 2025, as the library reported it.
Laval-des-Rapides’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Laval-des-Rapides.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Visitors and people from nearby towns are in the count too; how many live in Laval-des-Rapides isn’t recorded.
Questions about the library and civic life in Laval-des-Rapides
Does Laval-des-Rapides have a public library?
Yes: Bibliotheque Émile-Nelligan.
How busy is Bibliotheque Émile-Nelligan?
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).