Photo: Philippe Du Berger from Montréal · CC BY 2.0Montréal public library draws 6.5 visits per person served, ahead of 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, Lorimier among them. These are 2025 figures, the library’s own yearly return to Quebec’s statistics.
B−Civic life#14 of 507 in QuebecWhat Lorimier’s civic life grade weighs
With a B−, Lorimier ranks #14 of 507 Quebec towns on civic life. 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 Lorimier.
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 Lorimier 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. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
25.2%
The whole province shares one estimate: 25.2% of people in Quebec volunteered formally in 2023 (between 24.0% and 26.4%), where the ten provinces run from 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 1.4 km from Lorimier
In order of distance from the centre of Lorimier, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Lorimier’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Lorimier
Does Lorimier have a public library?
Lorimier has none mapped; the closest public library is Bibliothèque à livres ouverts, in Sainte-Marie.
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).