Photo: abdallahh · CC BY 2.0More visits per person served than all but a few of Quebec’s town libraries: Westmount public library counts 46.5
The 20,350 people Westmount public library serves have 2 branches to choose from. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to Quebec’s public library statistics.
A−Civic life#2 of 507 in QuebecWhat Westmount’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Westmount grades A−: #2 of the 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 Westmount.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
73 registered charities are based in Westmount, by mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 3.6; 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.
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.
About 2,590 visits a day
Everything counted at Westmount public library in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
Westmount’s 2 public libraries
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Westmount.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from Westmount or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
Questions about the library and civic life in Westmount
Does Westmount have a public library?
Yes, 2: Atwater Library & Montreal Children's Library and Bibliotheque De Westmount.
How busy is Westmount public library?
It counted 945,486 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).