Photo: EvanProdromou · CC BY-SA 4.0Montréal public library draws 6.5 visits per person served, ahead of 84% of Quebec’s town libraries
Montréal public library serves the whole of Montréal, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 1,948,747 people, Parc-Laurier among them. The figures come from Quebec’s public library statistics for 2025, as the library filed them.
B−Civic life#14 of 507 in QuebecWhat Parc-Laurier’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Parc-Laurier grades B−: #14 of the 507 towns graded in Quebec. A civic life grade combines library visits per resident, registered charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate, and all three exist for Parc-Laurier.
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-Laurier 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%
Volunteering here is a provincial number: 25.2% of people across Quebec in 2023, likely 24.0% to 26.4%, set in a ten-province range of 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Some 34,653 visits on an average day
The year 2025 at Montréal public library, in the library’s own counts.
2 public libraries in Parc-Laurier
In order of distance from the centre of Parc-Laurier, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Parc-Laurier’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Parc-Laurier
Does Parc-Laurier have a public library?
Yes, 2: Bibliothèque de la Danse Vincent-Warren and Bibliothèque du Plateau-Mont-Royal.
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).