Photo: Jeangagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0Laval public library draws 7.3 visits per person served, ahead of 87% of Quebec’s town libraries
Laval public library serves the whole of Laval, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 458,981 people, Saint-Vincent-de-Paul among them. The figures come from Quebec’s public library statistics for 2025, as the library filed them.
CCivic life#199 of 507 in QuebecBehind Saint-Vincent-de-Paul’s civic life grade
Saint-Vincent-de-Paul gets a C for civic life, #199 of 507 towns graded in Quebec. All three civic life inputs exist for Saint-Vincent-de-Paul: 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 Saint-Vincent-de-Paul 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.
About 9,128 visits a day
The year 2025 at Laval public library, in the library’s own counts.
The nearest library is 2 km from Saint-Vincent-de-Paul
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul.
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 Saint-Vincent-de-Paul.
Questions about the library and civic life in Saint-Vincent-de-Paul
Does Saint-Vincent-de-Paul have a public library?
Not within Saint-Vincent-de-Paul itself: the closest is Bibliothèque Germaine-Guèvremont, in Duvernay.
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).