Photo: Hayden Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Montréal public library draws 6.5 visits per person served, ahead of 84% of Quebec’s town libraries
Anjou is served by Montréal public library, the library of all of Montréal, so the figures here are the city’s, for 1,948,747 people. The figures come from Quebec’s public library statistics for 2025, as the library filed them.
B−Civic life#14 of 507 in QuebecWhat Anjou’s civic life grade weighs
With a B−, Anjou ranks #14 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 Anjou.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
3,830 registered charities are based in Montréal, by mailing address
There is no count for Anjou on its own: the charities are those of all of Montréal. Per 1,000 residents that makes 2; the median is 1.4 for Quebec towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. 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.
25.2%
Across Quebec, 25.2% of people volunteered through an organization in 2023, a provincial estimate with a likely range of 24.0% to 26.4%; the lowest province sits at 25.2% and the highest at 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Some 34,653 visits on an average day
Everything counted at Montréal public library in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
2 public libraries in Anjou
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Anjou.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from Anjou or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
Questions about the library and civic life in Anjou
Does Anjou have a public library?
Yes, 2: Bibliothèque du Haut-Anjou and Bibliothèque Jean-Corbeil.
How busy is Montréal public library?
It counted 12,648,282 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).