Photo: Judicieux · CC BY-SA 4.0Québec public library draws 8.5 visits per person served, ahead of 90% of Quebec’s town libraries
Québec public library serves the whole of Québec, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 594,443 people, Plateau among them. The figures come from Quebec’s public library statistics for 2025, as the library filed them.
C+Civic life#117 of 507 in QuebecWhat Plateau’s civic life grade weighs
Plateau gets a C+ for civic life, #117 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 Plateau.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
883 registered charities are based in Québec, by mailing address
There is no count for Plateau on its own: the charities are those of all of Québec. That is 1.5 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Quebec town and 1.4 across Canada. 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%
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.
Some 13,841 visits on an average day
Everything counted at Québec public library in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
The closest is 1.7 km from Plateau
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Plateau.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Plateau’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Plateau
Does Plateau have a public library?
No library is mapped inside Plateau, and the nearest one is Bibliothèque Monique-Corriveau in Saint-Louis.
How busy is Québec public library?
It counted 5,051,797 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).