Photo: Veillg1 · CC0Centre’s public library is Bibliothèque Joseph-De-Serigny
The library figures on this page are Longueuil’s: Bibliothèque Joseph-De-Serigny serves all 267,524 people of the city, Centre among them. 2.6 visits per person served came through its doors in 2025. The figures come from Quebec’s public library statistics for 2025, as the library filed them.
C−Civic life#323 of 507 in QuebecBehind Centre’s civic life grade
Centre gets a C− for civic life, #323 of 507 towns graded in Quebec. Centre 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.
309 registered charities give a Longueuil mailing address
There is no count for Centre on its own: the charities are those of all of Longueuil. That is 1.2 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%
For 2023, the provincial survey estimates that 25.2% of people in Quebec volunteered formally (likely 24.0% to 26.4%); among the ten provinces the rate goes from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
About 1,937 visits a day
Everything counted at Bibliothèque Joseph-De-Serigny in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
Centre’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Centre.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Public library locations are taken from OpenStreetMap and a 2020 Statistics Canada inventory, merged where both list one place.
Questions about the library and civic life in Centre
Does Centre have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque Joseph-De-Serigny.
How busy is Bibliothèque Joseph-De-Serigny?
It counted 706,979 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).