Photo: Richard Mc Neil · CC BY 3.0Montréal public library draws 6.5 visits per person served, ahead of 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, La Visitation 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 QuebecLa Visitation’s civic life grade, input by input
La Visitation gets a B− for civic life, #14 of 507 towns graded in Quebec. 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 La Visitation.
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 La Visitation 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. 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%
Between 24.0% and 26.4% of people in Quebec volunteered formally in 2023, 25.2% at the estimate’s middle; that is one figure for the province, which ranges from 25.2% to 40.3% nationally.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Some 34,653 visits on an average day
The year 2025 at Montréal public library, in the library’s own counts.
The closest is 1.1 km from La Visitation
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of La Visitation.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A busy library may owe some of its visits to people who live outside La Visitation; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in La Visitation
Does La Visitation have a public library?
None is mapped in La Visitation; the nearest is Bibliothèque Bellevile, in Ouest (Montréal-Nord).
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).