Rue Montcalm, Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel, 1940

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Libraries · Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel

The nearest public library to Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel is Bibliothèque «Le Survenant», 1.4 km away

After it comes Bibliothèque De Saint-Ignace-De-Loyola (Saint-Ignace-de-Loyola), 2.4 km away. Its libraries report as part of a wider system, so there are no figures for Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel in particular.

DCivic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteering

Directions Nearest libraries

Civic life grade

What Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel’s civic life grade weighs

Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel’s civic life grade is D. Two of the three civic life inputs exist for Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel, enough for a grade: charities and volunteering, but not library visits.

Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel’s overall grade.

–Library visitsNo library board of its own C⁻Charities0.6 per 1,000 · Quebec towns 1.4 · Canada 1.4 C⁻Volunteering25.2% of residents · all of Quebec, 2023

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

One registered charity gives a Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel mailing address

That is 0.6 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.

Volunteering

25.2%

In 2023, 25.2% of people in Quebec volunteered formally: one estimate for the whole province, likely between 24.0% and 26.4%, in a range of 25.2% to 40.3% across the ten provinces.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

Nearest libraries

The closest is 1.4 km from Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel

Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel.

1.4kmBibliothèque «Le Survenant»Sorel-TracyDirections →2.4kmBibliothèque De Saint-Ignace-De-LoyolaSaint-Ignace-de-LoyolaDirections →6.8kmBibliothèque municipale de BerthiervilleBerthiervilleDirections →7.7kmBibliothèque De Sainte-Genevieve-De-Berthier (Leo-Paul-Desrosiers)Sainte-Geneviève-de-BerthierDirections →12kmBibliothèqueLanoraieDirections →

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

Library locations. The locations come from OpenStreetMap and from Statistics Canada’s cultural facilities list of 2020, public libraries only.

Questions about the library and civic life in Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel

Does Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel have a public library?

Not in Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel: the nearest public library is Bibliothèque «Le Survenant», in Sorel-Tracy.

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).