Photo: Dillan Payne · CC BY-SA 2.0Colborne has two public libraries, Cramahe Township Public Library - Castleton Branch and Cramahe Township Public Library - Colborne Branch
Cramahe Township Public Library serves 7,932 people from 2 branches. In 2024 it lent 4.5 items for every person it serves. Like every Ontario library, it reports one typical week of visits, and the year is that week times 52: an estimate.
C+Civic life#600 of 866 in OntarioBehind Colborne’s civic life grade
Colborne gets a C+ for civic life, #600 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. Colborne 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 are based in Colborne, by mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.4; 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%
The 2023 survey gives Ontario one volunteering rate for all its towns, 32.1% (between 31.0% and 33.2%), while provinces run from 25.2% at the low end to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on 1 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.
About 423 visits in a typical week
Everything counted at Cramahe Township Public Library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
2 public libraries in Colborne
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Colborne.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Two sources make the map, OpenStreetMap and a 2020 Statistics Canada list, with academic and private libraries dropped.
Questions about the library and civic life in Colborne
Does Colborne have a public library?
Yes, 2: Cramahe Township Public Library - Castleton Branch and Cramahe Township Public Library - Colborne Branch.
How busy is Cramahe Township Public Library?
For 2024 it reported 35,914 loans and 21,996 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).