Photo: BrockvilleFact · CC BY-SA 4.0Brockville’s public library is Brockville Public Library
Brockville Public Library serves 22,116 people from a single building. In 2024 it lent 4.2 items for every person it serves. Ontario counts visits over one typical week and multiplies by 52, so the yearly figure is an estimate.
B+Civic life#8 of 866 in OntarioBehind Brockville’s civic life grade
With a B+, Brockville ranks #8 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Brockville: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
84 registered charities are based in Brockville, by mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 3.5; the median is 1.4 for Ontario towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. 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%
No town-level count exists, so the page uses Ontario as a whole: 32.1% volunteered formally in 2023, between 31.0% and 33.2%, while the provinces span 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of 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.
About 1,960 visits in a typical week
Everything counted at Brockville Public Library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
Brockville’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Brockville, as the crow flies.
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 Brockville; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in Brockville
Does Brockville have a public library?
Yes: Brockville Public Library.
How busy is Brockville Public Library?
For 2024 it reported 92,458 loans and 101,920 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).