Photo: Gaétan Veillette · CC BY-SA 4.0Saint-Hyacinthe public library draws 13.6 visits per person served, ahead of 96% of Quebec’s town libraries
The 60,847 people Saint-Hyacinthe public library serves have 4 branches to choose from. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to Quebec’s public library statistics.
BCivic life#6 of 507 in QuebecSaint-Hyacinthe’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Saint-Hyacinthe grades B: #6 of the 507 towns graded in Quebec. Saint-Hyacinthe 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.
129 registered charities are based in Saint-Hyacinthe, by mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 2.1; 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 whole province shares one estimate: 25.2% of people in Quebec volunteered formally in 2023 (between 24.0% and 26.4%), where the ten provinces run from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
About 2,269 visits a day
Everything counted at Saint-Hyacinthe public library in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
Saint-Hyacinthe’s 4 public libraries
In order of distance from the centre of Saint-Hyacinthe, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Saint-Hyacinthe’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Saint-Hyacinthe
Does Saint-Hyacinthe have a public library?
Yes, 4: Bibliothèque de la Faculté de médecine vétérinaire, Bibliotheque Sainte-Rosalie, Bibliotheque T. A. Saint-Germain and Bibliothèque T.-A.-St-Germain.
How busy is Saint-Hyacinthe public library?
It counted 828,325 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).