Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Fewer loans per person served than 95% of Ontario’s town libraries: Athens Public Library lends 1.6
A single building, Athens Public Library, serves 3,042 people. 1.4 visits per person served came through its doors in 2024. Visits here are a typical week’s count times 52, Ontario’s method, so read them as an estimate.
CCivic life#691 of 866 in OntarioAthens’s civic life grade, input by input
With a C, Athens ranks #691 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. Athens has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Athens mailing addresses hold 13 registered charities
That is 4.2 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Ontario town and 1.4 across Canada. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.
32.1%
The 2023 survey gives Ontario one volunteering rate for all its towns, 32.1% (between 31.0% and 33.2%), while provinces run from 25.2% at the low end to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Behind 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.
A typical week brings about 80 visits
What Athens Public Library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
Athens’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Athens.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The map joins OpenStreetMap with Statistics Canada’s 2020 cultural facilities list and leaves out school, college and private libraries.
Questions about the library and civic life in Athens
Does Athens have a public library?
Yes: Athens Public Library.
How busy is Athens Public Library?
Its 2024 report counts 4,160 visits in person and 5,004 items lent.
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).