Photo: Philippe Du Berger from Montréal · CC BY 2.0Bibliothèque DIRA logs 6.5 visits per person served, more than 84% of Quebec’s town libraries
René-Lévesque is served by Bibliothèque DIRA, 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 lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteeringBehind René-Lévesque’s civic life grade
Civic life in René-Lévesque grades B−. All three civic life inputs exist for René-Lévesque: 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 René-Lévesque 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%
Across Quebec, 25.2% of people volunteered through an organization in 2023, a provincial estimate with a likely range of 24.0% to 26.4%; the lowest province sits at 25.2% and the highest at 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
About 34,653 visits a day
The year 2025 at Bibliothèque DIRA, in the library’s own counts.
5 public libraries in René-Lévesque
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of René-Lévesque.
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 René-Lévesque.
Questions about the library and civic life in René-Lévesque
Does René-Lévesque have a public library?
Yes, 5: Bibliothèque centrale (UQAM), Bibliothèque DIRA, Bibliothèque R.-Howard-Webster, Médiathèque Guy-L.-Coté and 1 more.
How busy is Bibliothèque DIRA?
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).