Photo: Geai bleu · CC BY 3.0Bibliothèque Municipale Marcel-Dugas is Saint-Jacques’s public library
Bibliothèque Municipale Marcel-Dugas has one location for the 4,737 people it serves. In 2025 it logged 2.7 visits for every person it serves. The figures come from Quebec’s public library statistics for 2025, as the library filed them.
DCivic life#376 of 507 in QuebecSaint-Jacques’s civic life grade, input by input
With a D, Saint-Jacques ranks #376 of 507 Quebec towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Saint-Jacques: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Saint-Jacques mailing addresses hold 4 registered charities
That is 0.8 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%
One figure covers all of Quebec: in 2023, 25.2% of its people gave time to an organization (between 24.0% and 26.4%), against a provincial range of 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
About 35 visits a day
The year 2025 at Bibliothèque Municipale Marcel-Dugas, in the library’s own counts.
Saint-Jacques’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Saint-Jacques.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Statistics Canada’s 2020 facilities list and OpenStreetMap supply the points; libraries of schools, colleges and hospitals are not shown.
Questions about the library and civic life in Saint-Jacques
Does Saint-Jacques have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque Municipale Marcel-Dugas.
How busy is Bibliothèque Municipale Marcel-Dugas?
It counted 12,955 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).