Photo: Richard Mc Neil · CC BY 3.0More visits per person served than 87% of Quebec’s town libraries: Laval public library counts 7.3
Laval public library serves the whole of Laval, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 458,981 people, Pont-Viau among them. These are 2025 figures, the library’s own yearly return to Quebec’s statistics.
CCivic life#199 of 507 in QuebecBehind Pont-Viau’s civic life grade
With a C, Pont-Viau ranks #199 of 507 Quebec towns on civic life. Pont-Viau 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.
425 registered charities give a Laval mailing address
There is no count for Pont-Viau 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%
Between 24.0% and 26.4% of people in Quebec volunteered formally in 2023, 25.2% at the estimate’s middle; that is one figure for the province, which ranges from 25.2% to 40.3% nationally.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
About 9,128 visits a day
Everything counted at Laval public library in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
The nearest library is 2.5 km from Pont-Viau
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Pont-Viau.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A library’s visits include people from neighbouring towns and visitors; the statistics don’t say how many come from Pont-Viau itself.
Questions about the library and civic life in Pont-Viau
Does Pont-Viau have a public library?
Pont-Viau has none mapped; the closest public library is Bibliothèque Germaine-Guèvremont, in Duvernay.
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).