Photo: Wilfredor · CC0More visits per person served than 90% of Quebec’s town libraries: Bibliothèque de Québec counts 8.5
Charlesbourg is served by Bibliothèque de Québec, 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 Charlesbourg’s civic life grade
Charlesbourg gets a C+ for civic life, #117 of 507 towns graded in Quebec. All three civic life inputs exist for Charlesbourg: 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 Charlesbourg on its own: the charities are those of all of Québec. Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.5; the median is 1.4 for Quebec towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. 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.
About 13,841 visits a day
Everything counted at Bibliothèque de Québec in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
Charlesbourg’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Charlesbourg.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Charlesbourg’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Charlesbourg
Does Charlesbourg have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque Paul-Aimé-Paiement.
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).