Photo: Pierre-Olivier Fortin · CC BY-SA 3.0Bibliothèque de Québec logs 8.5 visits per person served, more than 90% of Quebec’s town libraries
Loretteville 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 are 2025 figures, the library’s own yearly return to Quebec’s statistics.
C+Civic life#117 of 507 in QuebecWhat Loretteville’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Loretteville grades C+: #117 of the 507 towns graded in Quebec. A civic life grade combines library visits per resident, registered charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate, and all three exist for Loretteville.
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 Loretteville 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%
In 2023, 25.2% of people in Quebec volunteered formally: one estimate for the whole province, likely between 24.0% and 26.4%, in a range of 25.2% to 40.3% across the ten provinces.
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.
Loretteville’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Loretteville.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A library’s visits include people from neighbouring towns and visitors; the statistics don’t say how many come from Loretteville itself.
Questions about the library and civic life in Loretteville
Does Loretteville have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque Chrystine-Brouillet.
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).