Photo: Ptaff · CC0Montréal public library logs 6.5 visits per person served, more than 84% of Quebec’s town libraries
Lachine-Ouest 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. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to Quebec’s public library statistics.
B−Civic life#14 of 507 in QuebecWhat Lachine-Ouest’s civic life grade weighs
Lachine-Ouest 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 Lachine-Ouest.
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 Lachine-Ouest 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%
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.
About 34,653 visits a day
Everything counted at Montréal public library in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
The nearest library is 0.9 km from Lachine-Ouest
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Lachine-Ouest.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Lachine-Ouest’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Lachine-Ouest
Does Lachine-Ouest have a public library?
The map shows none in Lachine-Ouest; Bibliothèque Saul-Bellow, in Vieux-Lachine - Saint-Pierre, 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).