Photo: Roncanada · CC BY 4.0Bibliothèque Municipale De Shannon logs 1.6 visits per person served, fewer than 79% of Quebec’s town libraries
Bibliothèque Municipale De Shannon serves 6,996 people from a single building. The figures come from Quebec’s public library statistics for 2025, as the library filed them.
D−Civic life#469 of 507 in QuebecWhat Shannon’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Shannon grades D−: #469 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 Shannon.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Shannon mailing addresses hold 2 registered charities
It works out to 0.3 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.
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.
About 31 visits a day
What Bibliothèque Municipale De Shannon counted in 2025, as the library reported it.
Shannon’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Shannon.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Two sources make the map, OpenStreetMap and a 2020 Statistics Canada list, with academic and private libraries dropped.
Questions about the library and civic life in Shannon
Does Shannon have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque Municipale De Shannon.
How busy is Bibliothèque Municipale De Shannon?
It counted 11,338 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).