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Libraries · Saint-Lambert

Saint-Lambert public library draws 7.4 visits per person served, ahead of 87% of Quebec’s town libraries

The 23,521 people Saint-Lambert public library serves have 2 branches to choose from. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to Quebec’s public library statistics.

B−Civic life#97 of 507 in Quebec
Visits a year
174,969
7.4 per person served
Libraries
2
Charities
41
1.8 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

Behind Saint-Lambert’s civic life grade

Civic life in Saint-Lambert grades B−: #97 of the 507 towns graded in Quebec. 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-Lambert.

B−
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Saint-Lambert’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

41 registered charities give a Saint-Lambert mailing address

It works out to 1.8 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Quebec town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.

Volunteering

25.2%

Between 24.0% and 26.4% of people in Quebec volunteered formally in 2023, 25.2% at the estimate’s middle; that is one figure for the province, which ranges from 25.2% to 40.3% nationally.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

A year at the library

Some 479 visits on an average day

The year 2025 at Saint-Lambert public library, in the library’s own counts.

174,969
in-person visits
7.4 per person served
Every week3,365visits
23,521 people served
The libraries

Saint-Lambert’s 2 public libraries

Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Saint-Lambert.

How to read these numbers

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-Lambert isn’t recorded.

Questions about the library and civic life in Saint-Lambert

Does Saint-Lambert have a public library?

Yes, 2: Bibliothèque de Saint-Lambert and Succursale Preville.

How busy is Saint-Lambert public library?

It counted 174,969 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).