Photo: Jeangagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0Montréal public library logs 6.5 visits per person served, more than 84% of Quebec’s town libraries
The library figures on this page are Montréal’s: Montréal public library serves all 1,948,747 people of the city, Beaurivage among them. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to Quebec’s public library statistics.
B−Civic life#14 of 507 in QuebecWhat Beaurivage’s civic life grade weighs
Beaurivage gets a B− for civic life, #14 of 507 towns graded in Quebec. All three civic life inputs exist for Beaurivage: 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.
3,830 registered charities give a Montréal mailing address
There is no count for Beaurivage on its own: the charities are those of all of Montréal. It works out to 2 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Quebec town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. 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%
For 2023, the provincial survey estimates that 25.2% of people in Quebec volunteered formally (likely 24.0% to 26.4%); among the ten provinces the rate goes from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
About 34,653 visits a day
The year 2025 at Montréal public library, in the library’s own counts.
The nearest library is 0.8 km from Beaurivage
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Beaurivage.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Beaurivage’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Beaurivage
Does Beaurivage have a public library?
Not within Beaurivage itself: the closest is Bibliothèque de Mercier, in Tétreaultville.
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).