Photo: Coastal Elite from Halifax, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Montréal public library draws 6.5 visits per person served, ahead of 84% of Quebec’s town libraries
Upper Lachine 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 2025 figures are what the library reported to Quebec’s public library statistics.
B−Civic life#14 of 507 in QuebecWhat Upper Lachine’s civic life grade weighs
With a B−, Upper Lachine ranks #14 of 507 Quebec towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Upper Lachine: 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.
3,830 registered charities are based in Montréal, by mailing address
There is no count for Upper Lachine 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. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.
25.2%
In 2023, 25.2% of people in Quebec volunteered formally: one estimate for the whole province, likely between 24.0% and 26.4%, in a range of 25.2% to 40.3% across the ten provinces.
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 Upper Lachine
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Upper Lachine.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Visitors and people from nearby towns are in the count too; how many live in Upper Lachine isn’t recorded.
Questions about the library and civic life in Upper Lachine
Does Upper Lachine have a public library?
None is mapped in Upper Lachine; the nearest is Bibliothèque Benny, in Loyola.
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).