Photo: Judicieux · CC BY-SA 4.0Bibliothèque de Québec draws 8.5 visits per person served, ahead of 90% of Quebec’s town libraries
Bibliothèque de Québec serves the whole of Québec, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 594,443 people, Lac-Saint-Charles 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 Lac-Saint-Charles’s civic life grade weighs
With a C+, Lac-Saint-Charles ranks #117 of 507 Quebec towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Lac-Saint-Charles: 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 Lac-Saint-Charles 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.
Some 13,841 visits on an average day
What Bibliothèque de Québec counted in 2025, as the library reported it.
Lac-Saint-Charles’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Lac-Saint-Charles.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Tourists, commuters and neighbours all add to the visits, and nobody records which of them live in Lac-Saint-Charles.
Questions about the library and civic life in Lac-Saint-Charles
Does Lac-Saint-Charles have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque Le Tournesol.
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).