Elgin County Library - Alymer is Aylmer’s public library

The library is 0.3 km from the centre of Aylmer. No library board reports for Aylmer alone: its libraries belong to a county or regional system, whose figures cover many towns.

C⁺Civic life#490 of 866 in Ontario

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Libraries

Charities

4.2 per 1,000 residents

Civic life grade

What Aylmer’s civic life grade weighs

Aylmer gets a C+ for civic life, #490 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. A civic life grade needs two of its three inputs, and Aylmer has charities and volunteering, though not library visits.

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Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Aylmer’s overall grade.

–Library visitsNo library board of its own B⁻Charities4.2 per 1,000 · Ontario towns 1.4 · Canada 1.4 C⁺Volunteering32.1% of residents · all of Ontario, 2023

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

35 registered charities give a Aylmer mailing address

Per 1,000 residents that makes 4.2; the median is 1.4 for Ontario towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.

Volunteering

32.1%

No town-level count exists, so the page uses Ontario as a whole: 32.1% volunteered formally in 2023, between 31.0% and 33.2%, while the provinces span 25.2% to 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

The libraries

Aylmer’s public library

In order of distance from the centre of Aylmer, as the crow flies.

0.3kmElgin County Library - AlymerDirections →

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

Library locations. Locations merge two sources, OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, without school, college or hospital libraries.

Questions about the library and civic life in Aylmer

Does Aylmer have a public library?

Yes: Elgin County Library - Alymer.

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).