Photo: abdallahh from Montréal, Canada · CC BY 2.0Bibliothèque «Le Survenant» is Sorel-Tracy’s public library
Bibliothèque «Le Survenant» serves 36,249 people from a single building. Visits ran to 2.2 per person served in 2025. These are 2025 figures, the library’s own yearly return to Quebec’s statistics.
C−Civic life#318 of 507 in QuebecSorel-Tracy’s civic life grade, input by input
Sorel-Tracy gets a C− for civic life, #318 of 507 towns graded in Quebec. Sorel-Tracy 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.
Sorel-Tracy mailing addresses hold 53 registered charities
It works out to 1.5 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%
25.2% of people in Quebec did formal volunteering in 2023, a province-wide estimate between 24.0% and 26.4%; across the ten provinces the rate runs from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Some 216 visits on an average day
Everything counted at Bibliothèque «Le Survenant» in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
Sorel-Tracy’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Sorel-Tracy.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Only public libraries are mapped: OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, with school and university libraries removed.
Questions about the library and civic life in Sorel-Tracy
Does Sorel-Tracy have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque «Le Survenant».
How busy is Bibliothèque «Le Survenant»?
It counted 78,956 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).