Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 2.5Espanola Public Library draws 13.9 visits per person served, ahead of all but a few of Ontario’s town libraries
A single building, Espanola Public Library, serves 5,185 people. Its borrowers took out 3.5 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.
B+Civic life#27 of 866 in OntarioWhat Espanola’s civic life grade weighs
With a B+, Espanola ranks #27 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. Espanola 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.
Espanola mailing addresses hold 16 registered charities
It works out to 2.9 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%
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 1 of 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 1,388 visits
The year 2024 at Espanola Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Espanola’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Espanola.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A busy library may owe some of its visits to people who live outside Espanola; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in Espanola
Does Espanola have a public library?
Yes: Espanola Public Library.
How busy is Espanola Public Library?
People made 72,176 visits in person and borrowed 18,374 items 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).