Photo: Jeangagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0More visits per person served than 84% of Quebec’s town libraries: Bibliothèque Robert-Bourassa counts 6.5
Bibliothèque Robert-Bourassa serves the whole of Montréal, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 1,948,747 people, Outremont among them. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to Quebec’s public library statistics.
B−Civic life#14 of 507 in QuebecOutremont’s civic life grade, input by input
Outremont gets a B− for civic life, #14 of 507 towns graded in Quebec. All three civic life inputs exist for Outremont: 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.
Montréal mailing addresses hold 3,830 registered charities
There is no count for Outremont 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
The year 2025 at Bibliothèque Robert-Bourassa, in the library’s own counts.
Outremont’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Outremont.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A busy library may owe some of its visits to people who live outside Outremont; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in Outremont
Does Outremont have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque Robert-Bourassa.
How busy is Bibliothèque Robert-Bourassa?
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).