Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0More visits per person served than 90% of Quebec’s town libraries: Québec public library counts 8.5
Bourg-Royal is served by Québec public library, the library of all of Québec, so the figures here are the city’s, for 594,443 people. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to Quebec’s public library statistics.
C+Civic life#117 of 507 in QuebecBehind Bourg-Royal’s civic life grade
Civic life in Bourg-Royal grades C+: #117 of the 507 towns graded in Quebec. All three civic life inputs exist for Bourg-Royal: 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.
883 registered charities are based in Québec, by mailing address
There is no count for Bourg-Royal on its own: the charities are those of all of Québec. It works out to 1.5 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Quebec town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. 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%
The 2023 survey gives Quebec one volunteering rate for all its towns, 25.2% (between 24.0% and 26.4%), while provinces run from 25.2% at the low end to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Some 13,841 visits on an average day
What Québec public library counted in 2025, as the library reported it.
The closest is 2.6 km from Bourg-Royal
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Bourg-Royal.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Bourg-Royal’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Bourg-Royal
Does Bourg-Royal have a public library?
Not in Bourg-Royal: the nearest public library is Bibliothèque Paul-Aimé-Paiement, in Charlesbourg.
How busy is Québec public library?
It counted 5,051,797 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).