Photo: Dan MacNeal · CC BY 4.0At 12.7 loans per person served, Grand Valley Public Library lends more than all but a few of Ontario’s town libraries
Grand Valley Public Library serves 3,140 people from a single building. It counted 9.6 in-person visits per person served in 2024. Ontario counts visits over one typical week and multiplies by 52, so the yearly figure is an estimate.
B−Civic life#77 of 866 in OntarioGrand Valley’s civic life grade, input by input
Grand Valley gets a B− for civic life, #77 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. Grand Valley 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.
6 registered charities are based in Grand Valley, by mailing address
It works out to 1.3 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Ontario town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.
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 all 3 measures
Per person served, against the 195 town libraries in Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
A typical week brings about 579 visits
The year 2024 at Grand Valley Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Grand Valley’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Grand Valley, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Visitors and people from nearby towns are in the count too; how many live in Grand Valley isn’t recorded.
- Per person served. Per-person rates rest on the service area the library reports, which may be larger or smaller than Grand Valley itself.
Questions about the library and civic life in Grand Valley
Does Grand Valley have a public library?
Yes: Grand Valley Public Library.
How busy is Grand Valley Public Library?
People made 30,108 visits in person and borrowed 40,034 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).