Photo: Gabriel Picard · 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, Saint-Jean-Baptiste among them. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to Quebec’s public library statistics.
C+Civic life#117 of 507 in QuebecSaint-Jean-Baptiste’s civic life grade, input by input
Saint-Jean-Baptiste gets a C+ for civic life, #117 of 507 towns graded in Quebec. Saint-Jean-Baptiste 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 are based in Québec, by mailing address
There is no count for Saint-Jean-Baptiste 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. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
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
What Bibliothèque de Québec counted in 2025, as the library reported it.
2 public libraries in Saint-Jean-Baptiste
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Saint-Jean-Baptiste.
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 Saint-Jean-Baptiste.
Questions about the library and civic life in Saint-Jean-Baptiste
Does Saint-Jean-Baptiste have a public library?
Yes, 2: Bibliothèque Claire-Martin and Bibliothèque de l'Assemblée Nationale.
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).