Photo: Héron du fleuve · CC0Montréal public library logs 6.5 visits per person served, more than 84% of Quebec’s town libraries
Montréal public library serves the whole of Montréal, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 1,948,747 people, Longue-Pointe among them. These are 2025 figures, the library’s own yearly return to Quebec’s statistics.
B−Civic life#14 of 507 in QuebecWhat Longue-Pointe’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Longue-Pointe grades B−: #14 of the 507 towns graded in Quebec. All three civic life inputs exist for Longue-Pointe: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial 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 Longue-Pointe 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. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
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.
Some 34,653 visits on an average day
Everything counted at Montréal public library in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
The closest is 0.5 km from Longue-Pointe
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Longue-Pointe.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Longue-Pointe’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Longue-Pointe
Does Longue-Pointe have a public library?
No library is mapped inside Longue-Pointe, and the nearest one is Bibliothèque Langelier in Louis-Riel.
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).