Photo: P199 · Public domainBrighton Public Library draws 7 visits per person served, ahead of 94% of Ontario’s town libraries
Brighton Public Library has 2 branches for the 12,108 people it serves. In 2024 it lent 5 items for every person it serves. Visits here are a typical week’s count times 52, Ontario’s method, so read them as an estimate.
BCivic life#66 of 866 in OntarioWhat Brighton’s civic life grade weighs
Brighton gets a B for civic life, #66 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. Brighton 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.
21 registered charities give a Brighton mailing address
That is 1.6 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Ontario town and 1.4 across Canada. 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%
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 all 3 measures
Measured per person served against the 195 town libraries of Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 1,624 visits in a typical week
Everything counted at Brighton Public Library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
Brighton’s 2 public libraries
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Brighton.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A busy library may owe some of its visits to people who live outside Brighton; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in Brighton
Does Brighton have a public library?
Yes, 2: Brighton Public Library and Brighton Public Library - Codrington Branch.
How busy is Brighton Public Library?
For 2024 it reported 60,947 loans and 84,448 in-person visits.
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).