Photo: Germain Beauchamp · Public domainAt 7.3 visits per person served, Bibliothèque Philippe-Panneton is busier than 87% of Quebec’s town libraries
The library figures on this page are Laval’s: Bibliothèque Philippe-Panneton serves all 458,981 people of the city, Laval-Ouest among them. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to Quebec’s public library statistics.
CCivic life#199 of 507 in QuebecWhat Laval-Ouest’s civic life grade weighs
Laval-Ouest gets a C for civic life, #199 of 507 towns graded in Quebec. All three civic life inputs exist for Laval-Ouest: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
425 registered charities are based in Laval, by mailing address
There is no count for Laval-Ouest on its own: the charities are those of all of Laval. Per 1,000 residents that makes 0.9; the median is 1.4 for Quebec towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. 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%
One figure covers all of Quebec: in 2023, 25.2% of its people gave time to an organization (between 24.0% and 26.4%), against a provincial range of 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
About 9,128 visits a day
What Bibliothèque Philippe-Panneton counted in 2025, as the library reported it.
Laval-Ouest’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Laval-Ouest.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Tourists, commuters and neighbours all add to the visits, and nobody records which of them live in Laval-Ouest.
Questions about the library and civic life in Laval-Ouest
Does Laval-Ouest have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque Philippe-Panneton.
How busy is Bibliothèque Philippe-Panneton?
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).