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Libraries · Hochelaga

More visits per person served than 84% of Quebec’s town libraries: Bibliothèque d'Hochelaga counts 6.5

The library figures on this page are Montréal’s: Bibliothèque d'Hochelaga serves all 1,948,747 people of the city, Hochelaga among them. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to Quebec’s public library statistics.

B−Civic life#14 of 507 in Quebec
Visits a year
12,648,282
6.5 per person served
Libraries
1
Charities
3,830
2 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

Hochelaga’s civic life grade, input by input

Civic life in Hochelaga grades B−: #14 of the 507 towns graded in Quebec. Hochelaga has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.

B−
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Hochelaga’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

Montréal mailing addresses hold 3,830 registered charities

There is no count for Hochelaga 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.

Volunteering

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.

A year at the library

About 34,653 visits a day

The year 2025 at Bibliothèque d'Hochelaga, in the library’s own counts.

12,648,282
in-person visits
6.5 per person served
Every week243,236visits
1,948,747 people served
The libraries

Hochelaga’s public library

Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Hochelaga.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Hochelaga’s residents and everyone else who walks in.

Questions about the library and civic life in Hochelaga

Does Hochelaga have a public library?

Yes: Bibliothèque d'Hochelaga.

How busy is Bibliothèque d'Hochelaga?

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).