Photo: Franck Michel from Antibes, France · CC BY 2.0More visits per person served than 84% of Quebec’s town libraries: Montréal public library counts 6.5
Montréal public library serves the whole of Montréal, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 1,948,747 people, Saint-Louis among them. The figures come from Quebec’s public library statistics for 2025, as the library filed them.
B−Civic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteeringSaint-Louis’s civic life grade, input by input
Saint-Louis’s civic life grade is B−. Saint-Louis has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s 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 Saint-Louis 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%
No town-level count exists, so the page uses Quebec as a whole: 25.2% volunteered formally in 2023, between 24.0% and 26.4%, while the provinces span 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Some 34,653 visits on an average day
Everything counted at Montréal public library in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
The closest is 0.8 km from Saint-Louis
In order of distance from the centre of Saint-Louis, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A busy library may owe some of its visits to people who live outside Saint-Louis; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in Saint-Louis
Does Saint-Louis have a public library?
Not in Saint-Louis: the nearest public library is Bibliothèque du Plateau-Mont-Royal, in Parc-Laurier.
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).