Photo: Pymouss · CC BY-SA 4.0At 7.2 visits per person served, Bibliothèque VIlle de Sainte-Catherine is busier than 86% of Quebec’s town libraries
Bibliothèque VIlle de Sainte-Catherine has one location for the 17,661 people it serves. The figures come from Quebec’s public library statistics for 2025, as the library filed them.
CCivic life#232 of 507 in QuebecWhat Sainte-Catherine’s civic life grade weighs
With a C, Sainte-Catherine ranks #232 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 Sainte-Catherine.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Sainte-Catherine mailing addresses hold 5 registered charities
Per 1,000 residents that makes 0.3; the median is 1.4 for Quebec towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. 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.
Some 348 visits on an average day
What Bibliothèque VIlle de Sainte-Catherine counted in 2025, as the library reported it.
Sainte-Catherine’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Sainte-Catherine.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Tourists, commuters and neighbours all add to the visits, and nobody records which of them live in Sainte-Catherine.
Questions about the library and civic life in Sainte-Catherine
Does Sainte-Catherine have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque VIlle de Sainte-Catherine.
How busy is Bibliothèque VIlle de Sainte-Catherine?
It counted 127,142 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).