Photo: Baelzvuv · CC BY-SA 4.0At 7.3 visits per person served, Laval public library is busier than 87% of Quebec’s town libraries
The library figures on this page are Laval’s: Laval public library serves all 458,981 people of the city, Chomedey among them. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to Quebec’s public library statistics.
CCivic life#199 of 507 in QuebecChomedey’s civic life grade, input by input
With a C, Chomedey ranks #199 of 507 Quebec towns on civic life. 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 Chomedey.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
425 registered charities give a Laval mailing address
There is no count for Chomedey on its own: the charities are those of all of Laval. That is 0.9 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%
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.
About 9,128 visits a day
The year 2025 at Laval public library, in the library’s own counts.
Chomedey’s 2 public libraries
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Chomedey.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from Chomedey or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
Questions about the library and civic life in Chomedey
Does Chomedey have a public library?
Yes, 2: Bibliothèque Alain-Grandbois and Bibliothèque Multiculturelle et Le Studio - Espace numérique - Chomedey.
How busy is Laval public library?
It counted 3,331,901 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).