Photo: Patrick Tomasso impatrickt · CC0At 0.9 visits per person served, Bancroft Public Library is quieter than 97% of Ontario’s town libraries
Bancroft Public Library serves 4,065 people from a single building. Its borrowers took out 2.7 items per person served in 2024. The yearly visit count is an estimate: Ontario libraries count a typical week, then multiply by 52.
CCivic life#727 of 866 in OntarioBancroft’s civic life grade, input by input
With a C, Bancroft ranks #727 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. Bancroft 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.
42 registered charities give a Bancroft mailing address
It works out to 9.7 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Ontario town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
32.1%
Volunteering here is a provincial number: 32.1% of people across Ontario in 2023, likely 31.0% to 33.2%, set in a ten-province range of 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on 1 of 3 measures
Each figure is per person served, set against 195 town libraries in Ontario’s statistics for 2024.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 73 visits in a typical week
Everything counted at Bancroft Public Library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
Bancroft’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Bancroft, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. A library listed by both OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada appears once; campus, school and private ones are left off.
Questions about the library and civic life in Bancroft
Does Bancroft have a public library?
Yes: Bancroft Public Library.
How busy is Bancroft Public Library?
The 2024 totals: 3,796 in-person visits, 10,836 loans.
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).