Photo: giggel · CC BY 3.0At 8.5 visits per person served, Québec public library is busier than 90% of Quebec’s town libraries
Pointe-de-Sainte-Foy is served by Québec public library, 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 QuebecBehind Pointe-de-Sainte-Foy’s civic life grade
Civic life in Pointe-de-Sainte-Foy grades C+: #117 of the 507 towns graded in Quebec. Pointe-de-Sainte-Foy 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.
Québec mailing addresses hold 883 registered charities
There is no count for Pointe-de-Sainte-Foy 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%
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.
About 13,841 visits a day
Everything counted at Québec public library in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
The nearest library is 2.6 km from Pointe-de-Sainte-Foy
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Pointe-de-Sainte-Foy.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Pointe-de-Sainte-Foy’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Pointe-de-Sainte-Foy
Does Pointe-de-Sainte-Foy have a public library?
Not within Pointe-de-Sainte-Foy itself: the closest is Bibliothèque Monique-Corriveau, in Saint-Louis.
How busy is Québec public library?
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).