Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Callander Public Library logs 5.1 visits per person served, more than 80% of Ontario’s town libraries
Callander Public Library serves 3,964 people from a single building. Its borrowers took out 3.7 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#24 of 866 in OntarioWhat Callander’s civic life grade weighs
With a B+, Callander ranks #24 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. Callander 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.
10 registered charities give a Callander mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 2.5; 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%
Formal volunteering is measured only for the province: 32.1% of Ontario’s people in 2023, give or take (31.0% to 33.2%), with the provinces between 25.2% and 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on 2 of 3 measures
Each figure is per person served, set against 195 town libraries in Ontario’s statistics for 2024.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
A typical week brings about 385 visits
What Callander Public Library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
Callander’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Callander.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from Callander or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
Questions about the library and civic life in Callander
Does Callander have a public library?
Yes: Callander Public Library.
How busy is Callander Public Library?
People made 20,020 visits in person and borrowed 14,535 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).