Photo: Judicieux · CC BY-SA 4.0At 8.5 visits per person served, Bibliothèque de Québec is busier than 90% of Quebec’s town libraries
Sillery 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 Sillery’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Sillery 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 Sillery.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
883 registered charities give a Québec mailing address
There is no count for Sillery 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. 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%
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.
About 13,841 visits a day
Everything counted at Bibliothèque de Québec in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
Sillery’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Sillery.
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 Sillery.
Questions about the library and civic life in Sillery
Does Sillery have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque Charles-H.-Blais.
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).