Photo: Benoit Rochon · CC BY-SA 3.0The nearest public library to Sainte-Martine is Bibliothèque publique de Mercier, 7 km away
Sainte-Martine public library counts 5,862 people in its service area. In 2025 it logged 1.9 visits for every person it serves. The figures come from Quebec’s public library statistics for 2025, as the library filed them.
DCivic life#416 of 507 in QuebecWhat Sainte-Martine’s civic life grade weighs
Sainte-Martine gets a D for civic life, #416 of 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 Sainte-Martine.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Sainte-Martine mailing addresses hold 4 registered charities
It works out to 0.7 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Quebec town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
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.
About 31 visits a day
The year 2025 at Sainte-Martine public library, in the library’s own counts.
The nearest library is 7 km from Sainte-Martine
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Sainte-Martine.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Public library locations are taken from OpenStreetMap and a 2020 Statistics Canada inventory, merged where both list one place.
Questions about the library and civic life in Sainte-Martine
Does Sainte-Martine have a public library?
Not within Sainte-Martine itself: the closest is Bibliothèque publique de Mercier, in Mercier.
How busy is Sainte-Martine public library?
It counted 11,336 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).