Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Québec public library draws 8.5 visits per person served, ahead of 90% of Quebec’s town libraries
Vieux-Bourg 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 2025 figures are what the library reported to Quebec’s public library statistics.
C+Civic life#117 of 507 in QuebecVieux-Bourg’s civic life grade, input by input
Vieux-Bourg gets a C+ for civic life, #117 of 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 Vieux-Bourg.
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 Vieux-Bourg 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. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
25.2%
Statistics Canada puts formal volunteering in Quebec at 25.2% in 2023, somewhere between 24.0% and 26.4%, for every town in the province alike; provinces range from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Some 13,841 visits on an average day
Everything counted at Québec public library in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
The closest is 1.8 km from Vieux-Bourg
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Vieux-Bourg.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from Vieux-Bourg or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
Questions about the library and civic life in Vieux-Bourg
Does Vieux-Bourg have a public library?
Not in Vieux-Bourg: the nearest public library is Bibliothèque Étienne-Parent, in Vieux-Moulin.
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).