Photo: Canmenwalker · CC BY 4.0Caledon Public Library logs 6.1 visits per person served, more than 92% of Ontario’s town libraries
Caledon Public Library serves 65,247 people from 7 branches. Its borrowers took out 4.5 items per person served in 2024. The yearly visit count is an estimate: Ontario libraries count a typical week, then multiply by 52.
B−Civic life#328 of 866 in OntarioBolton’s civic life grade, input by input
With a B−, Bolton ranks #328 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. Bolton 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.
95 registered charities are based in Bolton, by mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.1; 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.
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 all 3 measures
Measured per person served against the 195 town libraries of Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
A typical week brings about 7,664 visits
Everything counted at Caledon Public Library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
7 public libraries in Bolton
In order of distance from the centre of Bolton, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Visitors and people from nearby towns are in the count too; how many live in Bolton isn’t recorded.
- Per person served. Rather than Bolton’s census count, the rates use the population the library board says it serves.
Questions about the library and civic life in Bolton
Does Bolton have a public library?
Yes, 7: Caledon Public Library - Albion-Bolton Branch, Caledon Public Library - Alton Branch, Caledon Public Library - Caledon East Branch, Caledon Public Library - Caledon Village Branch and 3 more.
How busy is Caledon Public Library?
Its 2024 report counts 398,528 visits in person and 292,493 items lent.
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).