Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0At 6 loans per person served, Belleville Public Library lends more than 80% of Ontario’s town libraries
Belleville Public Library has one location for the 55,071 people it serves. Visits ran to 3 per person served in 2024. Ontario counts visits over one typical week and multiplies by 52, so the yearly figure is an estimate.
B−Civic life#251 of 866 in OntarioWhat Belleville’s civic life grade weighs
Belleville gets a B− for civic life, #251 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. Belleville 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.
145 registered charities are based in Belleville, by mailing address
That is 2.3 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%
32.1% of people in Ontario did formal volunteering in 2023, a province-wide estimate between 31.0% and 33.2%; across the ten provinces the rate runs from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on 2 of 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 3,152 visits
What Belleville Public Library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
Belleville’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Belleville.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Only public libraries are mapped: OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, with school and university libraries removed.
Questions about the library and civic life in Belleville
Does Belleville have a public library?
Yes: Belleville Public Library.
How busy is Belleville Public Library?
People made 163,904 visits in person and borrowed 329,983 items 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).