Photo: Dennis G. Jarvis · CC BY-SA 2.0Clark's Harbour Town Library and Barrington Municipal Library are Barrington’s two public libraries
Library statistics aren’t published openly in Nova Scotia, so there are no visit or loan figures for Barrington.
ACivic life#29 of 88 in Nova ScotiaWhat Barrington’s civic life grade weighs
Barrington gets a A for civic life, #29 of 88 towns graded in Nova Scotia. Barrington 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.
17 registered charities are based in Barrington, by mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 2.5; the median is 1.1 for Nova Scotia 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.
37.0%
No town-level count exists, so the page uses Nova Scotia as a whole: 37.0% volunteered formally in 2023, between 34.3% and 39.8%, while the provinces span 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Barrington’s 2 public libraries
In order of distance from the centre of Barrington, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Statistics Canada’s 2020 facilities list and OpenStreetMap supply the points; libraries of schools, colleges and hospitals are not shown.
Questions about the library and civic life in Barrington
Does Barrington have a public library?
Yes, 2: Clark's Harbour Town Library and Barrington Municipal Library.
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).