Photo: Andre Carrotflower · CC BY-SA 4.0Collingwood Public Library logs 7 visits per person served, more than 95% of Ontario’s town libraries
Collingwood Public Library serves 24,811 people from a single building. Its borrowers took out 8.8 items per person served in 2024. The yearly visit count is an estimate: Ontario libraries count a typical week, then multiply by 52.
BCivic life#33 of 866 in OntarioBehind Collingwood’s civic life grade
Collingwood gets a B for civic life, #33 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. Collingwood 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.
53 registered charities give a Collingwood mailing address
It works out to 1.9 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.
32.1%
For 2023, the provincial survey estimates that 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally (likely 31.0% to 33.2%); among the ten provinces the rate goes from 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.
A typical week brings about 3,363 visits
Everything counted at Collingwood Public Library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
Collingwood’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Collingwood.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Collingwood’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Collingwood
Does Collingwood have a public library?
Yes: Collingwood Public Library.
How busy is Collingwood Public Library?
In 2024 it logged 174,876 in-person visits and 219,139 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).