Photo: Jodie Wilson from Mountain View, USA · CC BY 2.0Fewer visits per person served than 98% of Ontario’s town libraries: Douro-Dummer Public Library counts 0.6
Douro-Dummer Public Library serves 7,632 people from a single building. Its borrowers took out 1.8 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.
C−Civic life#764 of 866 in OntarioBehind Douro-Dummer’s civic life grade
Douro-Dummer gets a C− for civic life, #764 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Douro-Dummer: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
5 registered charities give a Douro-Dummer mailing address
That is 0.6 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%
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.
Behind most of Ontario’s town libraries on all 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.
A typical week brings about 95 visits
The year 2024 at Douro-Dummer Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Douro-Dummer’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Douro-Dummer, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020), merged; school, college, hospital and private libraries are left out.
Questions about the library and civic life in Douro-Dummer
Does Douro-Dummer have a public library?
Yes: Douro-Dummer Public Library.
How busy is Douro-Dummer Public Library?
In 2024 it logged 4,940 in-person visits and 13,486 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).