Photo: Judicieux · CC BY-SA 4.0Bibliothèque de Québec logs 8.5 visits per person served, more than 90% of Quebec’s town libraries
The library figures on this page are Québec’s: Bibliothèque de Québec serves all 594,443 people of the city, Cap-Rouge among them. The figures come from Quebec’s public library statistics for 2025, as the library filed them.
C+Civic life#117 of 507 in QuebecWhat Cap-Rouge’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Cap-Rouge grades C+: #117 of the 507 towns graded in Quebec. All three civic life inputs exist for Cap-Rouge: 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.
Québec mailing addresses hold 883 registered charities
There is no count for Cap-Rouge 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. 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%
25.2% of people in Quebec did formal volunteering in 2023, a province-wide estimate between 24.0% and 26.4%; across the ten provinces the rate runs from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Some 13,841 visits on an average day
The year 2025 at Bibliothèque de Québec, in the library’s own counts.
Cap-Rouge’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Cap-Rouge.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Visitors and people from nearby towns are in the count too; how many live in Cap-Rouge isn’t recorded.
Questions about the library and civic life in Cap-Rouge
Does Cap-Rouge have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque Roger-Lemelin.
How busy is Bibliothèque de Québec?
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).