Photo: Calvin411 · CC BY-SA 4.0Montréal public library draws 6.5 visits per person served, ahead of 84% of Quebec’s town libraries
Grenet 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 Grenet’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Grenet grades B−: #14 of the 507 towns graded in Quebec. Grenet 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.
3,830 registered charities give a Montréal mailing address
There is no count for Grenet 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. 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%
One figure covers all of Quebec: in 2023, 25.2% of its people gave time to an organization (between 24.0% and 26.4%), against a provincial range of 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 1.6 km from Grenet
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Grenet.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Grenet’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Grenet
Does Grenet have a public library?
The map shows none in Grenet; Bibliothèque du Vieux-Saint-Laurent, in Du College/Hodge, is the closest.
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).