Photo: Iceberg9999 · CC BY-SA 4.0At 8.5 visits per person served, Bibliothèque de Québec is busier than 90% of Quebec’s town libraries
Des Châtels is served by Bibliothèque de Québec, the library of all of Québec, so the figures here are the city’s, for 594,443 people. The figures come from Quebec’s public library statistics for 2025, as the library filed them.
C+Civic life#117 of 507 in QuebecBehind Des Châtels’s civic life grade
With a C+, Des Châtels ranks #117 of 507 Quebec towns on civic life. Des Châtels 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.
883 registered charities give a Québec mailing address
There is no count for Des Châtels 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%
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
Everything counted at Bibliothèque de Québec in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
Des Châtels’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Des Châtels.
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 Des Châtels isn’t recorded.
Questions about the library and civic life in Des Châtels
Does Des Châtels have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque Neufchâtel.
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).