The nearest public library to St. Matthews is Legislative Library of Manitoba, 1.3 km away
The next is Harvey Smith Library (Sargent Park), 1.3 km away. Library statistics aren’t published openly in Manitoba, so there are no visit or loan figures for St. Matthews.
ACivic life#40 of 185 in ManitobaWhat St. Matthews’s civic life grade weighs
St. Matthews gets a A for civic life, #40 of 185 towns graded in Manitoba. St. Matthews has charities and volunteering for a civic life grade, though not library visits, and two of the three are enough.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
1,819 registered charities give a Winnipeg mailing address
There is no count for St. Matthews on its own: the charities are those of all of Winnipeg. Per 1,000 residents that makes 2.1; the median is 2.1 for Manitoba 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.
38.3%
The whole province shares one estimate: 38.3% of people in Manitoba volunteered formally in 2023 (between 35.6% and 41.1%), where the ten provinces run from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
The nearest library is 1.3 km from St. Matthews
In order of distance from the centre of St. Matthews, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Locations merge two sources, OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, without school, college or hospital libraries.
Questions about the library and civic life in St. Matthews
Does St. Matthews have a public library?
There isn’t one in St. Matthews; people there use libraries such as Legislative Library of Manitoba, in South Portage.
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).