Photo: Skeezix1000 · CC BY-SA 3.0More visits per person served than 83% of Ontario’s town libraries: Gravenhurst Public Library counts 5.5
Gravenhurst Public Library has one location for the 13,157 people it serves. Its borrowers took out 5.1 items per person served in 2024. Like every Ontario library, it reports one typical week of visits, and the year is that week times 52: an estimate.
B−Civic life#250 of 866 in OntarioWhat Gravenhurst’s civic life grade weighs
Gravenhurst gets a B− for civic life, #250 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Gravenhurst: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
23 registered charities are based in Gravenhurst, by mailing address
It works out to 1.6 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.
32.1%
The 2023 survey gives Ontario one volunteering rate for all its towns, 32.1% (between 31.0% and 33.2%), while provinces run from 25.2% at the low end to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on all 3 measures
Measured per person served against the 195 town libraries of Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 1,381 visits in a typical week
Everything counted at Gravenhurst Public Library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
Gravenhurst’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Gravenhurst.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A busy library may owe some of its visits to people who live outside Gravenhurst; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in Gravenhurst
Does Gravenhurst have a public library?
Yes: Gravenhurst Public Library.
How busy is Gravenhurst Public Library?
It counted 71,812 in-person visits and lent 67,405 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).