Photo: 4net · CC BY 3.0More visits per person served than 84% of Quebec’s town libraries: Bibliothèques de Montréal counts 6.5
Parc-Kent is served by Bibliothèques de Montréal, the library of all of Montréal, so the figures here are the city’s, for 1,948,747 people. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to Quebec’s public library statistics.
B−Civic life#14 of 507 in QuebecParc-Kent’s civic life grade, input by input
With a B−, Parc-Kent ranks #14 of 507 Quebec towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Parc-Kent: 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.
3,830 registered charities give a Montréal mailing address
There is no count for Parc-Kent 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. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
25.2%
25.2% of people in Quebec did formal volunteering in 2023, a province-wide estimate between 24.0% and 26.4%; across the ten provinces the rate runs from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Some 34,653 visits on an average day
What Bibliothèques de Montréal counted in 2025, as the library reported it.
Parc-Kent’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Parc-Kent.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from Parc-Kent or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
Questions about the library and civic life in Parc-Kent
Does Parc-Kent have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque Interculturelle.
How busy is Bibliothèques de Montréal?
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).