Photo: Guillaume Prévost · CC BY-SA 3.0Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu public library logs 6.3 visits per person served, more than 82% of Quebec’s town libraries
From 3 branches, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu public library serves 100,396 people. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to Quebec’s public library statistics.
CCivic life#222 of 507 in QuebecSaint-Jean-sur-Richelieu’s civic life grade, input by input
With a C, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu ranks #222 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-Jean-sur-Richelieu.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
91 registered charities are based in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, by mailing address
That is 0.9 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Quebec town and 1.4 across Canada. The CRA files each charity under its mailing address, so a service town collects its region’s charities and a suburb or rural municipality few.
25.2%
No town-level count exists, so the page uses Quebec as a whole: 25.2% volunteered formally in 2023, between 24.0% and 26.4%, while the provinces span 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
About 1,719 visits a day
Everything counted at Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu public library in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
3 public libraries in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu
In order of distance from the centre of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Visitors and people from nearby towns are in the count too; how many live in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu isn’t recorded.
Questions about the library and civic life in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu
Does Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu have a public library?
Yes, 3: Bibliothèque Adélard-Berger, Bibliothèque L'Acadie and Bibliothèque Saint-Luc.
How busy is Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu public library?
It counted 627,491 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).