Photo: Jeangagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0Pointe-Claire public library draws 7.7 visits per person served, ahead of 88% of Quebec’s town libraries
Pointe-Claire public library has 2 branches for the 36,255 people it serves. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to Quebec’s public library statistics.
B−Civic life#99 of 507 in QuebecBehind Pointe-Claire’s civic life grade
Civic life in Pointe-Claire grades B−: #99 of the 507 towns graded in Quebec. Pointe-Claire 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.
64 registered charities are based in Pointe-Claire, by mailing address
It works out to 1.7 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Quebec town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. 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%
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 764 visits on an average day
What Pointe-Claire public library counted in 2025, as the library reported it.
Pointe-Claire’s 2 public libraries
In order of distance from the centre of Pointe-Claire, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from Pointe-Claire or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
Questions about the library and civic life in Pointe-Claire
Does Pointe-Claire have a public library?
Yes, 2: Bibliothèque publique de Pointe-Claire – succursale Valois and Pointe-Claire Public Library.
How busy is Pointe-Claire public library?
It counted 278,684 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).