Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Dryden Public Library logs 5.6 visits per person served, more than 86% of Ontario’s town libraries
Dryden Public Library serves 7,388 people from a single building. Its borrowers took out 4.2 items per person served in 2024. The yearly visit count is an estimate: Ontario libraries count a typical week, then multiply by 52.
B+Civic life#18 of 866 in OntarioBehind Dryden’s civic life grade
Dryden gets a B+ for civic life, #18 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. A civic life grade combines library visits per resident, registered charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate, and all three exist for Dryden.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Dryden mailing addresses hold 29 registered charities
Per 1,000 residents that makes 3.7; the median is 1.4 for Ontario towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. 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%
In 2023, 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally: one estimate for the whole province, likely between 31.0% and 33.2%, in a range of 25.2% to 40.3% across the ten provinces.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of 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 798 visits
The year 2024 at Dryden Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Dryden’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Dryden.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Dryden’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Dryden
Does Dryden have a public library?
Yes: Dryden Public Library.
How busy is Dryden Public Library?
In 2024 it logged 41,496 in-person visits and 30,817 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).