Photo: Dillan Payne · CC BY-SA 4.03 public library branches serve Beaverton
Brock Libraries serves 12,567 people. 3.2 items per person served went out on loan in 2024. Like every Ontario library, it reports one typical week of visits, and the year is that week times 52: an estimate.
BCivic life#70 of 866 in OntarioWhat Beaverton’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Beaverton grades B: #70 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. Beaverton 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.
37 registered charities are based in Beaverton, by mailing address
It works out to 2.7 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Ontario town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. 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%
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.
Behind 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.
A typical week brings about 714 visits
Everything counted at Brock Libraries in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
Beaverton’s 3 public libraries
In order of distance from the centre of Beaverton, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020), merged; school, college, hospital and private libraries are left out.
Questions about the library and civic life in Beaverton
Does Beaverton have a public library?
Yes, 3: Brock Libraries - Beaverton Branch, Brock Libraries - Cannington Branch and Brock Libraries - Sunderland Branch.
How busy is Brock Libraries?
Over 2024: 39,838 items out on loan, 37,128 visits through the door.
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).