Photo: Judicieux · CC BY-SA 4.0At 6.5 visits per person served, Bibliothèque de Parc-Extension is busier than 84% of Quebec’s town libraries
Bibliothèque de Parc-Extension serves the whole of Montréal, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 1,948,747 people, Parc-Extension among them. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to Quebec’s public library statistics.
B−Civic life#14 of 507 in QuebecParc-Extension’s civic life grade, input by input
Parc-Extension gets a B− for civic life, #14 of 507 towns graded in Quebec. Parc-Extension 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 Parc-Extension 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. 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
The year 2025 at Bibliothèque de Parc-Extension, in the library’s own counts.
Parc-Extension’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Parc-Extension.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Parc-Extension’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Parc-Extension
Does Parc-Extension have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque de Parc-Extension.
How busy is Bibliothèque de Parc-Extension?
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).