Photo: Boréal · CC BY-SA 3.0More visits per person served than 90% of Quebec’s town libraries: Bibliothèque de Québec counts 8.5
Bibliothèque de Québec serves the whole of Québec, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 594,443 people, Val-Bélair among them. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to Quebec’s public library statistics.
C+Civic life#117 of 507 in QuebecVal-Bélair’s civic life grade, input by input
With a C+, Val-Bélair ranks #117 of 507 Quebec towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Val-Bélair: 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 Val-Bélair 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. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
25.2%
The whole province shares one estimate: 25.2% of people in Quebec volunteered formally in 2023 (between 24.0% and 26.4%), where the ten provinces run from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Some 13,841 visits on an average day
What Bibliothèque de Québec counted in 2025, as the library reported it.
Val-Bélair’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Val-Bélair, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A library’s visits include people from neighbouring towns and visitors; the statistics don’t say how many come from Val-Bélair itself.
Questions about the library and civic life in Val-Bélair
Does Val-Bélair have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque Félix-Leclerc.
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).