Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainMore visits per person served than 84% of Quebec’s town libraries: Montréal public library counts 6.5
Pierrefonds-Est is served by Montréal public library, the library of all of Montréal, so the figures here are the city’s, for 1,948,747 people. These are 2025 figures, the library’s own yearly return to Quebec’s statistics.
B−Civic life#14 of 507 in QuebecWhat Pierrefonds-Est’s civic life grade weighs
With a B−, Pierrefonds-Est ranks #14 of 507 Quebec towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Pierrefonds-Est: 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 Pierrefonds-Est 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. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
25.2%
One figure covers all of Quebec: in 2023, 25.2% of its people gave time to an organization (between 24.0% and 26.4%), against a provincial range of 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
About 34,653 visits a day
Everything counted at Montréal public library in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
2 public libraries in Pierrefonds-Est
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Pierrefonds-Est.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Tourists, commuters and neighbours all add to the visits, and nobody records which of them live in Pierrefonds-Est.
Questions about the library and civic life in Pierrefonds-Est
Does Pierrefonds-Est have a public library?
Yes, 2: Bibliothèque de Pierrefonds and Bibliothèque de Roxboro.
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).