Photo: Percy Russell Doherty · Public domainFort Frances Public Library logs 4.8 visits per person served, more than 78% of Ontario’s town libraries
Fort Frances Public Library has one location for the 7,466 people it serves. 5.4 items per person served went out on loan in 2024. The yearly visit count is an estimate: Ontario libraries count a typical week, then multiply by 52.
A−Civic life#6 of 866 in OntarioFort Frances’s civic life grade, input by input
Fort Frances gets a A− for civic life, #6 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. Fort Frances 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.
39 registered charities are based in Fort Frances, by mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 5.1; the median is 1.4 for Ontario towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
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.
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 690 visits
The year 2024 at Fort Frances Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Fort Frances’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Fort Frances.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A library’s visits include people from neighbouring towns and visitors; the statistics don’t say how many come from Fort Frances itself.
Questions about the library and civic life in Fort Frances
Does Fort Frances have a public library?
Yes: Fort Frances Public Library.
How busy is Fort Frances Public Library?
Over 2024: 40,689 items out on loan, 35,880 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).