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Libraries · Alnwick/Haldimand

Alnwick/Haldimand Public Library lends 1.6 items per person served, fewer than 96% of Ontario’s town libraries

The 7,473 people Alnwick/Haldimand Public Library serves have 3 branches to choose from. In 2024 it logged 1.3 visits for every person it serves. Ontario counts visits over one typical week and multiplies by 52, so the yearly figure is an estimate.

CCivic life#728 of 866 in Ontario
Visits a year
9,672
1.3 per person served
Borrowed a year
11,858
1.6 per person served
Cardholders
19%
1,435 cards
Libraries
3
Charities
10
1.2 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

What Alnwick/Haldimand’s civic life grade weighs

Civic life in Alnwick/Haldimand grades C: #728 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. Alnwick/Haldimand has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.

C
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Alnwick/Haldimand’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

10 registered charities give a Alnwick/Haldimand mailing address

That is 1.2 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Ontario town and 1.4 across Canada. 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.

Volunteering

32.1%

Statistics Canada puts formal volunteering in Ontario at 32.1% in 2023, somewhere between 31.0% and 33.2%, for every town in the province alike; provinces range from 25.2% to 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

How it compares

Behind most of Ontario’s town libraries on all 3 measures

Per person served, against the 195 town libraries in Ontario’s 2024 statistics.

Visits per person served 1.3 visits · typical 3.4Bottom 10%
Loans per person served 1.6 items · typical 4Bottom 10%
Cardholders 19% of people served · typical 27%Lower than 78%
Fewer per personMore per person
Who is compared

Town libraries only; regional systems left out.

A year at the library

About 186 visits in a typical week

What Alnwick/Haldimand Public Library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.

9,672
in-person visits
1.3 per person served
11,858
items borrowed
1.6 per person served
1,435
cardholders
19% of people served
Every day32items borrowed
7,473 people served
The libraries

Alnwick/Haldimand’s 3 public libraries

Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Alnwick/Haldimand.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Library locations. Public library locations are taken from OpenStreetMap and a 2020 Statistics Canada inventory, merged where both list one place.

Questions about the library and civic life in Alnwick/Haldimand

Does Alnwick/Haldimand have a public library?

Yes, 3: Alnwick/Haldimand Library - Roseneath Branch, Alnwick/Haldimand Public Library - Centreton Branch and Alnwick/Haldimand Public Library - Grafton Branch.

How busy is Alnwick/Haldimand Public Library?

For 2024 it reported 11,858 loans and 9,672 in-person visits.

Library statistics: Ontario Public Library Statistics, 2024. 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).