Photo: Studio Livernois · Public domainBibliothèque de Québec draws 8.5 visits per person served, ahead of 90% of Quebec’s town libraries
The library figures on this page are Québec’s: Bibliothèque de Québec serves all 594,443 people of the city, Saint-Roch among them. These are 2025 figures, the library’s own yearly return to Quebec’s statistics.
C+Civic life#117 of 507 in QuebecSaint-Roch’s civic life grade, input by input
Saint-Roch gets a C+ for civic life, #117 of 507 towns graded in Quebec. All three civic life inputs exist for Saint-Roch: 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 Saint-Roch 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%
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
Everything counted at Bibliothèque de Québec in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
Saint-Roch’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Saint-Roch.
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-Roch.
Questions about the library and civic life in Saint-Roch
Does Saint-Roch have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque Gabrielle-Roy.
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).