Photo: Ahmed Houamel · CC BY-SA 4.0At 6.5 visits per person served, Bibliothèque de Saint-Michel is busier than 84% of Quebec’s town libraries
Bibliothèque de Saint-Michel serves the whole of Montréal, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 1,948,747 people, François-Perrault among them. The figures come from Quebec’s public library statistics for 2025, as the library filed them.
B−Civic life#14 of 507 in QuebecFrançois-Perrault’s civic life grade, input by input
François-Perrault gets a B− for civic life, #14 of 507 towns graded in Quebec. François-Perrault 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.
Montréal mailing addresses hold 3,830 registered charities
There is no count for François-Perrault 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%
The 2023 survey gives Quebec one volunteering rate for all its towns, 25.2% (between 24.0% and 26.4%), while provinces run from 25.2% at the low end to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Some 34,653 visits on an average day
The year 2025 at Bibliothèque de Saint-Michel, in the library’s own counts.
François-Perrault’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of François-Perrault.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Visitors and people from nearby towns are in the count too; how many live in François-Perrault isn’t recorded.
Questions about the library and civic life in François-Perrault
Does François-Perrault have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque de Saint-Michel.
How busy is Bibliothèque de Saint-Michel?
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).