Photo: Judicieux · CC BY-SA 4.0Bibliothèque de Québec logs 8.5 visits per person served, more than 90% of Quebec’s town libraries
Notre-Dame-des-Laurentides 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 QuebecWhat Notre-Dame-des-Laurentides’s civic life grade weighs
With a C+, Notre-Dame-des-Laurentides ranks #117 of 507 Quebec towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Notre-Dame-des-Laurentides: 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 Notre-Dame-des-Laurentides 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. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
25.2%
One figure covers all of Quebec: in 2023, 25.2% of its people gave time to an organization (between 24.0% and 26.4%), against a provincial range of 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.
Notre-Dame-des-Laurentides’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Notre-Dame-des-Laurentides.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from Notre-Dame-des-Laurentides or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
Questions about the library and civic life in Notre-Dame-des-Laurentides
Does Notre-Dame-des-Laurentides have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque Bon-Pasteur.
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).