Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0More visits per person served than 90% of Quebec’s town libraries: Bibliothèque de Québec counts 8.5
Vieux-Moulin is served by Bibliothèque de Québec, 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 QuebecBehind Vieux-Moulin’s civic life grade
With a C+, Vieux-Moulin ranks #117 of 507 Quebec towns on civic life. 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-Moulin.
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-Moulin 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. 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%
For 2023, the provincial survey estimates that 25.2% of people in Quebec volunteered formally (likely 24.0% to 26.4%); among the ten provinces the rate goes from 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.
Vieux-Moulin’s 2 public libraries
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Vieux-Moulin.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A busy library may owe some of its visits to people who live outside Vieux-Moulin; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in Vieux-Moulin
Does Vieux-Moulin have a public library?
Yes, 2: Bibliothèque du Chemin-Royal and Bibliothèque Étienne-Parent.
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).