Photo: Ymblanter · CC BY-SA 4.0More visits per person served than 79% of Quebec’s town libraries: Bibliothèque municipale Françoise-Bédard counts 5.5
A single building, Bibliothèque municipale Françoise-Bédard, serves 20,667 people. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to Quebec’s public library statistics.
BCivic life#8 of 507 in QuebecRivière-du-Loup’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Rivière-du-Loup grades B: #8 of the 507 towns graded in Quebec. Rivière-du-Loup 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.
50 registered charities give a Rivière-du-Loup mailing address
That is 2.4 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%
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.
About 313 visits a day
The year 2025 at Bibliothèque municipale Françoise-Bédard, in the library’s own counts.
Rivière-du-Loup’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Rivière-du-Loup.
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 Rivière-du-Loup; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in Rivière-du-Loup
Does Rivière-du-Loup have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque municipale Françoise-Bédard.
How busy is Bibliothèque municipale Françoise-Bédard?
It counted 114,420 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).