Photo: Jeangagnon · CC BY-SA 4.0At 6.5 visits per person served, Bibliothèque Saint-Charles is busier than 84% of Quebec’s town libraries
The library figures on this page are Montréal’s: Bibliothèque Saint-Charles serves all 1,948,747 people of the city, Pointe-Saint-Charles among them. These are 2025 figures, the library’s own yearly return to Quebec’s statistics.
B−Civic life#14 of 507 in QuebecWhat Pointe-Saint-Charles’s civic life grade weighs
Pointe-Saint-Charles gets a B− for civic life, #14 of 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 Pointe-Saint-Charles.
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 Pointe-Saint-Charles 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%
For 2023, the provincial survey estimates that 25.2% of people in Quebec volunteered formally (likely 24.0% to 26.4%); among the ten provinces the rate goes from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
About 34,653 visits a day
What Bibliothèque Saint-Charles counted in 2025, as the library reported it.
Pointe-Saint-Charles’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Pointe-Saint-Charles.
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 Pointe-Saint-Charles.
Questions about the library and civic life in Pointe-Saint-Charles
Does Pointe-Saint-Charles have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque Saint-Charles.
How busy is Bibliothèque Saint-Charles?
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).