No public library stands in Wakefield: the closest, Dr. Walter Chestnut Public Library, is 6.5 km away

The next is L. P. Fisher Public Library (Woodstock), 13 km away. Visits and loans aren’t published as open data in New Brunswick, so this page has none for Wakefield.

A⁻Civic life#4 of 60 in New Brunswick

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Civic life grade

What Wakefield’s civic life grade weighs

Wakefield gets a A− for civic life, #4 of 60 towns graded in New Brunswick. Wakefield has charities and volunteering for a civic life grade, though not library visits, and two of the three are enough.

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

–Library visitsNo open library statistics in New Brunswick ACharities3.3 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

Wakefield mailing addresses hold 9 registered charities

Per 1,000 residents that makes 3.3; the median is 1.8 for New Brunswick towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.

Volunteering

34.4%

One figure covers all of New Brunswick: in 2023, 34.4% of its people gave time to an organization (between 31.6% and 37.2%), against a provincial range of 25.2% to 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

Nearest libraries

The closest is 6.5 km from Wakefield

Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Wakefield.

6.5kmDr. Walter Chestnut Public LibraryHartlandDirections →13kmL. P. Fisher Public LibraryWoodstockDirections →19kmAndrew and Laura McCain Public LibraryFlorenceville-BristolDirections →19kmAndrew And Laura Mccain Public LibraryFlorenceville-BristolDirections →51kmPerth-Andover Public LibraryPerth-AndoverDirections →

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

Library locations. A library listed by both OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada appears once; campus, school and private ones are left off.

Questions about the library and civic life in Wakefield

Does Wakefield have a public library?

No library is mapped inside Wakefield, and the nearest one is Dr. Walter Chestnut Public Library in Hartland.

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).