Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0At 1.3 visits per person served, Bibliotheque Madeleine-Belanger is quieter than 85% of Quebec’s town libraries
Bibliotheque Madeleine-Belanger serves 6,460 people from a single building. These are 2025 figures, the library’s own yearly return to Quebec’s statistics.
DCivic life#362 of 507 in QuebecWhat Princeville’s civic life grade weighs
With a D, Princeville ranks #362 of 507 Quebec towns on civic life. Princeville 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.
6 registered charities give a Princeville mailing address
It works out to 0.9 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Quebec town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
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.
Some 24 visits on an average day
The year 2025 at Bibliotheque Madeleine-Belanger, in the library’s own counts.
Princeville’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Princeville.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The map joins OpenStreetMap with Statistics Canada’s 2020 cultural facilities list and leaves out school, college and private libraries.
Questions about the library and civic life in Princeville
Does Princeville have a public library?
Yes: Bibliotheque Madeleine-Belanger.
How busy is Bibliotheque Madeleine-Belanger?
It counted 8,640 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).