Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Black River-Matheson public library draws 2 visits per person served, behind 84% of Ontario’s town libraries
Black River-Matheson public library has one location for the 2,201 people it serves. In 2024 it lent 4.9 items for every person it serves. Like every Ontario library, it reports one typical week of visits, and the year is that week times 52: an estimate.
C+Civic life#452 of 866 in OntarioWhat Black River-Matheson’s civic life grade weighs
Black River-Matheson gets a C+ for civic life, #452 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. Black River-Matheson 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.
One registered charity gives a Black River-Matheson mailing address
It works out to 0.3 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Ontario town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. The CRA files each charity under its mailing address, so a service town collects its region’s charities and a suburb or rural municipality few.
32.1%
One figure covers all of Ontario: in 2023, 32.1% of its people gave time to an organization (between 31.0% and 33.2%), against a provincial 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
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 84 visits
The year 2024 at Black River-Matheson public library, in the library’s own counts.
The nearest library is 34 km from Black River-Matheson
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Black River-Matheson.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Per person served. The per-person figures use the library’s own service population, not the census count for Black River-Matheson.
Questions about the library and civic life in Black River-Matheson
Does Black River-Matheson have a public library?
Not within Black River-Matheson itself: the closest is Iroquois Falls Public Library, in Iroquois Falls.
How busy is Black River-Matheson public library?
Over 2024: 10,749 items out on loan, 4,368 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).