Photo: Onasill ~ Bill - Onasill ~ 109 Millions Views · CC BY-SA 2.0More visits per person served than 87% of Ontario’s town libraries: Aurora Public Library counts 5.7
Aurora Public Library serves 65,970 people from a single building. Its borrowers took out 6.7 items per person served in 2024. Like every Ontario library, it reports one typical week of visits, and the year is that week times 52: an estimate.
C+Civic life#332 of 866 in OntarioBehind Aurora’s civic life grade
Civic life in Aurora grades C+: #332 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. A civic life grade combines library visits per resident, registered charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate, and all three exist for Aurora.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Aurora mailing addresses hold 74 registered charities
That is 1.1 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Ontario town and 1.4 across Canada. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
32.1%
The whole province shares one estimate: 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally in 2023 (between 31.0% and 33.2%), where the ten provinces run from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on all 3 measures
Per person served, against the 195 town libraries in Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 7,234 visits in a typical week
The year 2024 at Aurora Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Aurora’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Aurora, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Aurora’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Aurora
Does Aurora have a public library?
Yes: Aurora Public Library.
How busy is Aurora Public Library?
376,168 in-person visits and 444,740 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).