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Libraries · Gananoque

Ganonoque Public Library logs 1.8 visits per person served, fewer than 86% of Ontario’s town libraries

Ganonoque Public Library has one location for the 5,383 people it serves. 2.8 items per person served went out on loan in 2024. Ontario counts visits over one typical week and multiplies by 52, so the yearly figure is an estimate.

C+Civic life#635 of 866 in Ontario
Visits a year
9,880
1.8 per person served
Borrowed a year
15,195
2.8 per person served
Cardholders
24%
1,298 cards
Libraries
1
Charities
28
5 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

Gananoque’s civic life grade, input by input

With a C+, Gananoque ranks #635 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. Gananoque has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.

C+
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Gananoque’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

28 registered charities give a Gananoque mailing address

It works out to 5 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Ontario town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.

Volunteering

32.1%

One figure covers all of Ontario: in 2023, 32.1% of its people gave time to an organization (between 31.0% and 33.2%), against a provincial range of 25.2% to 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

How it compares

Behind 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.

Visits per person served 1.8 visits · typical 3.4Lower than 86%
Loans per person served 2.8 items · typical 4Lower than 78%
Cardholders 24% of people served · typical 27%Lower than 61%
Fewer per personMore per person
Who is compared

Town libraries only; regional systems left out.

A year at the library

About 190 visits in a typical week

The year 2024 at Ganonoque Public Library, in the library’s own counts.

9,880
in-person visits
1.8 per person served
15,195
items borrowed
2.8 per person served
1,298
cardholders
24% of people served
Every day42items borrowed
5,383 people served
The libraries

Gananoque’s public library

Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Gananoque.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Library locations. A library listed by both OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada appears once; campus, school and private ones are left off.

Questions about the library and civic life in Gananoque

Does Gananoque have a public library?

Yes: Gananoque Public Library.

How busy is Ganonoque Public Library?

9,880 in-person visits and 15,195 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).