Photo: Andre Carrotflower · CC BY-SA 4.0At 6.5 visits per person served, Bibliothèque Mordecai-Richler is busier than 84% of Quebec’s town libraries
Bibliothèque Mordecai-Richler serves the whole of Montréal, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 1,948,747 people, Mile End among them. These are 2025 figures, the library’s own yearly return to Quebec’s statistics.
B−Civic life#14 of 507 in QuebecWhat Mile End’s civic life grade weighs
With a B−, Mile End ranks #14 of 507 Quebec towns on civic life. Mile End 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.
3,830 registered charities are based in Montréal, by mailing address
There is no count for Mile End 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%
For 2023, the provincial survey estimates that 25.2% of people in Quebec volunteered formally (likely 24.0% to 26.4%); among the ten provinces the rate goes from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
About 34,653 visits a day
The year 2025 at Bibliothèque Mordecai-Richler, in the library’s own counts.
Mile End’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Mile End.
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 Mile End isn’t recorded.
Questions about the library and civic life in Mile End
Does Mile End have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque Mordecai-Richler.
How busy is Bibliothèque Mordecai-Richler?
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).