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Libraries · Casselman

Fewer loans per person served than 87% of Ontario’s town libraries: Casselman Public Library lends 2.2

A single building, Casselman Public Library, serves 3,970 people. It counted 3.3 in-person visits per person served in 2024. Visits here are a typical week’s count times 52, Ontario’s method, so read them as an estimate.

CCivic life#725 of 866 in Ontario
Visits a year
12,948
3.3 per person served
Borrowed a year
8,759
2.2 per person served
Cardholders
61%
2,418 cards
Libraries
1
Charities
4
0.9 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

What Casselman’s civic life grade weighs

With a C, Casselman ranks #725 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Casselman: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.

C
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Casselman’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

4 registered charities give a Casselman mailing address

It works out to 0.9 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Ontario town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.

Volunteering

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.

How it compares

Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on 1 of 3 measures

Per person served, against the 195 town libraries in Ontario’s 2024 statistics.

Visits per person served 3.3 visits · typical 3.4Lower than 56%
Loans per person served 2.2 items · typical 4Lower than 87%
Cardholders 61% of people served · typical 27%Top 10%
Fewer per personMore per person
Who is compared

Town libraries only; regional systems left out.

A year at the library

About 249 visits in a typical week

Everything counted at Casselman Public Library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.

12,948
in-person visits
3.3 per person served
8,759
items borrowed
2.2 per person served
2,418
cardholders
61% of people served
Every day24items borrowed
3,970 people served
The libraries

Casselman’s public library

Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Casselman.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Library locations. Statistics Canada’s 2020 facilities list and OpenStreetMap supply the points; libraries of schools, colleges and hospitals are not shown.

Questions about the library and civic life in Casselman

Does Casselman have a public library?

Yes: Casselman Public Library.

How busy is Casselman Public Library?

12,948 in-person visits and 8,759 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).