Photo: DebraJNolan · CC BY-SA 4.0Garden River public library lends 0.7 items per person served, fewer than all but a few of Ontario’s town libraries
Garden River public library serves 1,356 people. In 2024 it logged 1.5 visits for every person it serves. Ontario counts visits over one typical week and multiplies by 52, so the yearly figure is an estimate.
DCivic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteeringGarden River 14’s civic life grade, input by input
Garden River 14’s civic life grade is D. Garden River 14 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.
One registered charity gives a Garden River 14 mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 0.8; 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%
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.
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.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
A typical week brings about 40 visits
The year 2024 at Garden River public library, in the library’s own counts.
The nearest library is 12 km from Garden River 14
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Garden River 14.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Locations merge two sources, OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, without school, college or hospital libraries.
Questions about the library and civic life in Garden River 14
Does Garden River 14 have a public library?
Not within Garden River 14 itself: the closest is Arthur Wishart Library / West Wing, in Sault Ste. Marie.
How busy is Garden River public library?
People made 2,080 visits in person and borrowed 964 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).