Photo: P199 · Public domainDeep River Public Library draws 10.9 visits per person served, ahead of 98% of Ontario’s town libraries
A single building, Deep River Public Library, serves 4,175 people. Loans ran to 9.9 items per person served in 2024. Visits here are a typical week’s count times 52, Ontario’s method, so read them as an estimate.
A−Civic life#7 of 866 in OntarioBehind Deep River’s civic life grade
Civic life in Deep River grades A−: #7 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. Deep River 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.
24 registered charities are based in Deep River, by mailing address
That is 5.5 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Ontario town and 1.4 across Canada. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.
32.1%
32.1% of people in Ontario did formal volunteering in 2023, a province-wide estimate between 31.0% and 33.2%; across the ten provinces the rate runs 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 872 visits
Everything counted at Deep River Public Library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
Deep River’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Deep River.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from Deep River or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
Questions about the library and civic life in Deep River
Does Deep River have a public library?
Yes: Deep River Public Library.
How busy is Deep River Public Library?
Over 2024: 41,224 items out on loan, 45,344 visits through the door.
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).