Photo: Steven.Pigeon · Public domainFewer visits per person served than 88% of Quebec’s town libraries: Bibliotheque Municipale D'Oka counts 1.2
A single building, Bibliotheque Municipale D'Oka, serves 6,216 people. The figures come from Quebec’s public library statistics for 2025, as the library filed them.
D−Civic life#475 of 507 in QuebecBehind Oka’s civic life grade
Civic life in Oka grades D−: #475 of the 507 towns graded in Quebec. All three civic life inputs exist for Oka: 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.
6 registered charities are based in Oka, by mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.4; 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%
One figure covers all of Quebec: in 2023, 25.2% of its people gave time to an organization (between 24.0% and 26.4%), against a provincial range of 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
About 21 visits a day
The year 2025 at Bibliotheque Municipale D'Oka, in the library’s own counts.
Oka’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Oka.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Per person served. Rather than Oka’s census count, the rates use the population the library board says it serves.
Questions about the library and civic life in Oka
Does Oka have a public library?
Yes: Bibliotheque Municipale D'Oka.
How busy is Bibliotheque Municipale D'Oka?
It counted 7,587 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).