Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0Bibliotheque De Saint-Colomban is Saint-Colomban’s public library
A single building, Bibliotheque De Saint-Colomban, serves 18,836 people. 2.1 visits per person served came through its doors in 2025. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to Quebec’s public library statistics.
DCivic life#439 of 507 in QuebecSaint-Colomban’s civic life grade, input by input
With a D, Saint-Colomban ranks #439 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 Saint-Colomban.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Saint-Colomban mailing addresses hold 4 registered charities
That is 0.2 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Quebec town and 1.4 across Canada. 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.
About 107 visits a day
Everything counted at Bibliotheque De Saint-Colomban in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
Saint-Colomban’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Saint-Colomban.
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 Saint-Colomban
Does Saint-Colomban have a public library?
Yes: Bibliotheque De Saint-Colomban.
How busy is Bibliotheque De Saint-Colomban?
It counted 38,956 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).