Photo: Robbie Sproule from Montreal, Canada · CC BY 2.0At 9.6 visits per person served, Montreal West Public Library is busier than 92% of Quebec’s town libraries
Montreal West Public Library has one location for the 5,372 people it serves. These are 2025 figures, the library’s own yearly return to Quebec’s statistics.
BCivic life#11 of 507 in QuebecBehind Montréal-Ouest’s civic life grade
Civic life in Montréal-Ouest grades B: #11 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 Montréal-Ouest.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Montréal-Ouest mailing addresses hold 11 registered charities
It works out to 2.1 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Quebec town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
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.
About 141 visits a day
Everything counted at Montreal West Public Library in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
Montréal-Ouest’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Montréal-Ouest.
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 Montréal-Ouest itself.
Questions about the library and civic life in Montréal-Ouest
Does Montréal-Ouest have a public library?
Yes: Montreal West Public Library.
How busy is Montreal West Public Library?
It counted 51,643 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).