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Libraries · Val-des-Monts

Val-des-Monts public library draws 1.6 visits per person served, behind 80% of Quebec’s town libraries

Val-des-Monts public library has 3 branches for the 14,293 people it serves. These are 2025 figures, the library’s own yearly return to Quebec’s statistics.

DCivic life#437 of 507 in Quebec
Visits a year
23,023
1.6 per person served
Libraries
3
Charities
13
0.9 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

Behind Val-des-Monts’s civic life grade

With a D, Val-des-Monts ranks #437 of 507 Quebec towns on civic life. 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 Val-des-Monts.

D
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Val-des-Monts’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

13 registered charities give a Val-des-Monts mailing address

Per 1,000 residents that makes 0.9; 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.

Volunteering

25.2%

One figure covers all of Quebec: in 2023, 25.2% of its people gave time to an organization (between 24.0% and 26.4%), against a provincial range of 25.2% to 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

A year at the library

About 63 visits a day

Everything counted at Val-des-Monts public library in 2025: visits, loans and cards.

23,023
in-person visits
1.6 per person served
Every week443visits
14,293 people served
The libraries

Val-des-Monts’s 3 public libraries

Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Val-des-Monts.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Library locations. Only public libraries are mapped: OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, with school and university libraries removed.

Questions about the library and civic life in Val-des-Monts

Does Val-des-Monts have a public library?

Yes, 3: Bibliothèque De Notre-Dame-De-La-Salette, Bibliotheque De Perkins (Val-Des-Monts) and Bibliothèque de Poltimore.

How busy is Val-des-Monts public library?

It counted 23,023 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).