Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0No public library stands in Georgian Bay: the closest, Muskoka Lakes Library, is 22 km away
The 3,441 people Georgian Bay public library serves have 2 branches to choose from. In 2024 it lent 3.7 items for every person it serves. Visits here are a typical week’s count times 52, Ontario’s method, so read them as an estimate.
C+Civic life#442 of 866 in OntarioBehind Georgian Bay’s civic life grade
With a C+, Georgian Bay ranks #442 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. Georgian Bay 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.
No registered charity gives a Georgian Bay mailing address
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%
The whole province shares one estimate: 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally in 2023 (between 31.0% and 33.2%), where the ten provinces run from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on 2 of 3 measures
Measured per person served against the 195 town libraries of Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
A typical week brings about 235 visits
Everything counted at Georgian Bay public library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
The nearest library is 22 km from Georgian Bay
In order of distance from the centre of Georgian Bay, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020), merged; school, college, hospital and private libraries are left out.
Questions about the library and civic life in Georgian Bay
Does Georgian Bay have a public library?
Not within Georgian Bay itself: the closest is Muskoka Lakes Library, in Muskoka Lakes.
How busy is Georgian Bay public library?
People made 12,220 visits in person and borrowed 12,693 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).