Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Trois-Rivières public library draws 31.6 visits per person served, ahead of 97% of Quebec’s town libraries
The 148,469 people Trois-Rivières public library serves have 5 branches to choose from. The figures come from Quebec’s public library statistics for 2025, as the library filed them.
B−Civic life#98 of 507 in QuebecBehind Trois-Rivières’s civic life grade
Civic life in Trois-Rivières grades B−: #98 of the 507 towns graded in Quebec. Trois-Rivières 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.
Trois-Rivières mailing addresses hold 232 registered charities
Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.6; the median is 1.4 for Quebec towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. 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%
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 12,862 visits on an average day
Everything counted at Trois-Rivières public library in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
Trois-Rivières’s 5 public libraries
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Trois-Rivières.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from Trois-Rivières or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
Questions about the library and civic life in Trois-Rivières
Does Trois-Rivières have a public library?
Yes, 5: Bibliothèque Aline-Piché, Bibliothèque De La Franciade, Bibliothèque Gatien-Lapointe, Bibliothèque Maurice-Loranger and 1 more.
How busy is Trois-Rivières public library?
It counted 4,694,805 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).