At 8.5 visits per person served, Québec public library is busier than 90% of Quebec’s town libraries
Saint-Rodrigue 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 QuebecWhat Saint-Rodrigue’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Saint-Rodrigue 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 Saint-Rodrigue.
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 Saint-Rodrigue on its own: the charities are those of all of Québec. That is 1.5 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Quebec town and 1.4 across Canada. 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%
Volunteering here is a provincial number: 25.2% of people across Quebec in 2023, likely 24.0% to 26.4%, set in a ten-province range of 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Some 13,841 visits on an average day
What Québec public library counted in 2025, as the library reported it.
The closest is 1.6 km from Saint-Rodrigue
In order of distance from the centre of Saint-Rodrigue, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Saint-Rodrigue’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Saint-Rodrigue
Does Saint-Rodrigue have a public library?
No, but Bibliothèque Saint-Albert in Lairet is the nearest public library to Saint-Rodrigue.
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).