Photo: Amakuha · CC BY 4.0At 6.5 visits per person served, Montréal public library is busier than 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, Louis-Hébert among them. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to Quebec’s public library statistics.
B−Civic life#14 of 507 in QuebecBehind Louis-Hébert’s civic life grade
Civic life in Louis-Hébert grades B−: #14 of the 507 towns graded in Quebec. Louis-Hébert has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.
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 Louis-Hébert on its own: the charities are those of all of Montréal. That is 2 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Quebec town and 1.4 across Canada. 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%
In 2023, 25.2% of people in Quebec volunteered formally: one estimate for the whole province, likely between 24.0% and 26.4%, in a range of 25.2% to 40.3% across the ten provinces.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Some 34,653 visits on an average day
What Montréal public library counted in 2025, as the library reported it.
2 public libraries in Louis-Hébert
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Louis-Hébert.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Visitors and people from nearby towns are in the count too; how many live in Louis-Hébert isn’t recorded.
Questions about the library and civic life in Louis-Hébert
Does Louis-Hébert have a public library?
Yes, 2: Bibliothèque de La Petite-Patrie and Bibliothèque Nationale Du Québec.
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).