No public library stands in Newcastle: the closest, Newcastle Public Library, is 13 km away

The next is Chatham Public Library (Miramichi), 16 km away. Visits and loans aren’t published as open data in New Brunswick, so this page has none for Newcastle.

B⁺Civic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteering

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Civic life grade

What Newcastle’s civic life grade weighs

Civic life in Newcastle grades B+. Newcastle has charities and volunteering for a civic life grade, though not library visits, and two of the three are enough.

B⁺

Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Newcastle’s overall grade.

–Library visitsNo open library statistics in New Brunswick B⁺Charities0 per 1,000 · New Brunswick towns 1.8 · Canada 1.4 B⁻Volunteering34.4% of residents · all of New Brunswick, 2023

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

No registered charity gives a Newcastle mailing address

Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.

Volunteering

34.4%

Volunteering here is a provincial number: 34.4% of people across New Brunswick in 2023, likely 31.6% to 37.2%, set in a ten-province range of 25.2% to 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

Nearest libraries

The nearest library is 13 km from Newcastle

In order of distance from the centre of Newcastle, as the crow flies.

13kmNewcastle Public LibraryMiramichiDirections →16kmChatham Public LibraryMiramichiDirections →57kmBathurst Public LibraryBathurstDirections →

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

Library locations. OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020), merged; school, college, hospital and private libraries are left out.

Questions about the library and civic life in Newcastle

Does Newcastle have a public library?

Not within Newcastle itself: the closest is Newcastle Public Library, in Miramichi.

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).