Photo: P199 · Public domainElizabethtown Kitley Public Library draws 0.6 visits per person served, behind all but a few of Ontario’s town libraries
Elizabethtown Kitley Public Library has 3 branches for the 9,545 people it serves. 1.1 items per person served went out on loan in 2024. Like every Ontario library, it reports one typical week of visits, and the year is that week times 52: an estimate.
CCivic life#709 of 866 in OntarioBehind Elizabethtown-Kitley’s civic life grade
Civic life in Elizabethtown-Kitley grades C: #709 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 Elizabethtown-Kitley.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
One registered charity gives a Elizabethtown-Kitley mailing address
It works out to 0.1 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Ontario town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. 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%
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.
Behind most of Ontario’s town libraries on all 3 measures
Per person served, against the 195 town libraries in Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 110 visits in a typical week
What Elizabethtown Kitley Public Library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
Elizabethtown-Kitley’s 3 public libraries
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Elizabethtown-Kitley.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Only public libraries are mapped: OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, with school and university libraries removed.
Questions about the library and civic life in Elizabethtown-Kitley
Does Elizabethtown-Kitley have a public library?
Yes, 3: Elizabethtown Kitley Public Library - Lyn Branch, Elizabethtown Kitley Public Library - Spring Valley Branch and Elizabethtown Kitley Public Library - Toledo Branch.
How busy is Elizabethtown Kitley Public Library?
5,720 in-person visits and 10,138 items borrowed in 2024.
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).