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Libraries · Victoriaville

Bibliothèque Alcide-Fleury and Bibliothèque Charles-Edouard-Mailhot are Victoriaville’s two public libraries

From 2 branches, Victoriaville public library serves 49,750 people. 3.2 visits per person served came through its doors in 2025. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to Quebec’s public library statistics.

CCivic life#224 of 507 in Quebec
Visits a year
157,692
3.2 per person served
Libraries
2
Charities
94
1.9 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

Victoriaville’s civic life grade, input by input

Civic life in Victoriaville grades C: #224 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 Victoriaville.

C
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Victoriaville’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

94 registered charities are based in Victoriaville, by mailing address

It works out to 1.9 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.

Volunteering

25.2%

Statistics Canada puts formal volunteering in Quebec at 25.2% in 2023, somewhere between 24.0% and 26.4%, for every town in the province alike; provinces range from 25.2% to 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

A year at the library

About 432 visits a day

Everything counted at Victoriaville public library in 2025: visits, loans and cards.

157,692
in-person visits
3.2 per person served
Every week3,033visits
49,750 people served
The libraries

2 public libraries in Victoriaville

Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Victoriaville.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Library locations. The points are public libraries only, drawn from OpenStreetMap and from Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020).

Questions about the library and civic life in Victoriaville

Does Victoriaville have a public library?

Yes, 2: Bibliothèque Alcide-Fleury and Bibliothèque Charles-Edouard-Mailhot.

How busy is Victoriaville public library?

It counted 157,692 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).