Photo: Veillg1 · CC BY-SA 4.0At 1.6 visits per person served, Bibliothèque municipale Simonne-Monet-Chartrand is quieter than 79% of Quebec’s town libraries
A single building, Bibliothèque municipale Simonne-Monet-Chartrand, serves 5,998 people. These are 2025 figures, the library’s own yearly return to Quebec’s statistics.
DCivic life#398 of 507 in QuebecWhat Richelieu’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Richelieu grades D: #398 of the 507 towns graded in Quebec. Richelieu has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Richelieu mailing addresses hold 11 registered charities
Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.8; 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%
The 2023 survey gives Quebec one volunteering rate for all its towns, 25.2% (between 24.0% and 26.4%), while provinces run from 25.2% at the low end to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
About 27 visits a day
What Bibliothèque municipale Simonne-Monet-Chartrand counted in 2025, as the library reported it.
Richelieu’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Richelieu.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The map joins OpenStreetMap with Statistics Canada’s 2020 cultural facilities list and leaves out school, college and private libraries.
Questions about the library and civic life in Richelieu
Does Richelieu have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque municipale Simonne-Monet-Chartrand.
How busy is Bibliothèque municipale Simonne-Monet-Chartrand?
It counted 9,748 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).