Photo: Rub-a-dub Hedgehog · CC BY 4.0Each person Chatham-Kent public library serves borrows 6.2 items, more than at 82% of Ontario’s town libraries
Chatham-Kent public library serves 103,988 people from 10 branches. Visits ran to 2.5 per person served in 2024. Visits here are a typical week’s count times 52, Ontario’s method, so read them as an estimate.
B−Civic life#264 of 866 in OntarioWhat Chatham’s civic life grade weighs
Chatham gets a B− for civic life, #264 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. Chatham 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.
274 registered charities are based in Chatham, by mailing address
It works out to 2.4 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.
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 2 of 3 measures
Per person served, against the 195 town libraries in Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 5,020 visits in a typical week
What Chatham-Kent public library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
9 public libraries in Chatham
In order of distance from the centre of Chatham, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. A library listed by both OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada appears once; campus, school and private ones are left off.
Questions about the library and civic life in Chatham
Does Chatham have a public library?
Yes, 9: Chatham Kent Public Library - Highgate Branch, Blenheim Public Library, Chatham Kent Public Library - Tillbury Branch, Chatham-Kent Public Library - Chatham Branch and 5 more.
How busy is Chatham-Kent public library?
The 2024 totals: 261,040 in-person visits, 644,813 loans.
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).