Photo: Robert Garry · CC BY-SA 4.0Sept-Îles’s public library works from 3 branches
Sept-Îles public library serves 24,373 people. It counted 2.5 in-person visits per person served in 2025. These are 2025 figures, the library’s own yearly return to Quebec’s statistics.
C−Civic life#257 of 507 in QuebecSept-Îles’s civic life grade, input by input
With a C−, Sept-Îles ranks #257 of 507 Quebec towns on civic life. Sept-Îles 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.
44 registered charities are based in Sept-Îles, by mailing address
That is 1.8 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Quebec town and 1.4 across Canada. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.
25.2%
For 2023, the provincial survey estimates that 25.2% of people in Quebec volunteered formally (likely 24.0% to 26.4%); among the ten provinces the rate goes from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Some 167 visits on an average day
What Sept-Îles public library counted in 2025, as the library reported it.
Sept-Îles’s 3 public libraries
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Sept-Îles.
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 Sept-Îles
Does Sept-Îles have a public library?
Yes, 3: Bibliotheque Du Secteur De Gallix, Bibliotheque Du Secteur De Moisie and Bibliothèque Louis-Ange-Santerre.
How busy is Sept-Îles public library?
It counted 60,791 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).