Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Carleton Place Public Library lends 9.2 items per person served, more than 96% of Ontario’s town libraries
Carleton Place Public Library has one location for the 12,500 people it serves. Visits ran to 4.7 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#23 of 866 in OntarioWhat Carleton Place’s civic life grade weighs
With a B+, Carleton Place ranks #23 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Carleton Place: 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.
36 registered charities are based in Carleton Place, by mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 2.4; 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.
About 1,139 visits in a typical week
Everything counted at Carleton Place Public Library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
Carleton Place’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Carleton Place, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Tourists, commuters and neighbours all add to the visits, and nobody records which of them live in Carleton Place.
- Per person served. Figures are divided by the population the library says it serves, which can differ from the census count of Carleton Place.
Questions about the library and civic life in Carleton Place
Does Carleton Place have a public library?
Yes: Carleton Place Public Library.
How busy is Carleton Place Public Library?
59,228 in-person visits and 114,434 items borrowed 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).