Photo: Doug Kerr · CC BY-SA 2.0At 0.7 visits per person served, Bibliotheque Municipale De Sainte-Sophie is quieter than 97% of Quebec’s town libraries
Bibliotheque Municipale De Sainte-Sophie serves 19,410 people from a single building. The figures come from Quebec’s public library statistics for 2025, as the library filed them.
D−Civic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteeringBehind Sainte-Sophie’s civic life grade
Sainte-Sophie’s civic life grade is D−. Sainte-Sophie has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
8 registered charities give a Sainte-Sophie mailing address
It works out to 0.4 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Quebec town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. 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%
The whole province shares one estimate: 25.2% of people in Quebec volunteered formally in 2023 (between 24.0% and 26.4%), where the ten provinces run from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Some 35 visits on an average day
What Bibliotheque Municipale De Sainte-Sophie counted in 2025, as the library reported it.
Sainte-Sophie’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Sainte-Sophie, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Locations merge two sources, OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, without school, college or hospital libraries.
Questions about the library and civic life in Sainte-Sophie
Does Sainte-Sophie have a public library?
Yes: Bibliotheque Municipale De Sainte-Sophie.
How busy is Bibliotheque Municipale De Sainte-Sophie?
It counted 12,884 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).