Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Fewer visits per person served than 81% of Ontario’s town libraries: East Ferris Public Library counts 2
East Ferris Public Library serves 4,946 people from a single building. In 2024 it lent 2.7 items for every person it serves. Visits here are a typical week’s count times 52, Ontario’s method, so read them as an estimate.
CCivic life#733 of 866 in OntarioWhat East Ferris’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in East Ferris grades C: #733 of the 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 East Ferris.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
No registered charity gives a East Ferris mailing address
The CRA files each charity under its mailing address, so a service town collects its region’s charities and a suburb or rural municipality few.
32.1%
Between 31.0% and 33.2% of people in Ontario volunteered formally in 2023, 32.1% at the estimate’s middle; that is one figure for the province, which ranges from 25.2% to 40.3% nationally.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Behind 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 194 visits
What East Ferris Public Library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
East Ferris’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of East Ferris.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Per person served. The per-person figures use the library’s own service population, not the census count for East Ferris.
Questions about the library and civic life in East Ferris
Does East Ferris have a public library?
Yes: East Ferris Public Library.
How busy is East Ferris Public Library?
Over 2024: 13,478 items out on loan, 10,088 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).