Photo: P199 · Public domainArmstrong public library draws 6 visits per person served, ahead of 91% of Ontario’s town libraries
The population Armstrong public library serves is 1,199. In 2024 it lent 4.1 items for every person it serves. Visits here are a typical week’s count times 52, Ontario’s method, so read them as an estimate.
A−Civic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteeringArmstrong’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Armstrong grades A−. All three civic life inputs exist for Armstrong: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
No registered charity gives a Armstrong mailing address
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.
32.1%
Formal volunteering is measured only for the province: 32.1% of Ontario’s people in 2023, give or take (31.0% to 33.2%), with the provinces between 25.2% and 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on all 3 measures
Measured per person served against the 195 town libraries of Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 138 visits in a typical week
What Armstrong public library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
The nearest library is 29 km from Armstrong
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Armstrong.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Visitors and people from nearby towns are in the count too; how many live in Armstrong isn’t recorded.
Questions about the library and civic life in Armstrong
Does Armstrong have a public library?
Not within Armstrong itself: the closest is Bibliothèque de Notre-Dame-du-Nord, in Notre-Dame-du-Nord.
How busy is Armstrong public library?
7,176 in-person visits and 4,907 items borrowed in 2024.
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).