Photo: Qui1che · CC BY-SA 3.0Greater Madawaska has one public library, Greater Madawaska Public Library
Greater Madawaska Public Library has one location for the 2,864 people it serves. Loans ran to 4.8 items per person served in 2024. Ontario counts visits over one typical week and multiplies by 52, so the yearly figure is an estimate.
BCivic life#62 of 866 in OntarioWhat Greater Madawaska’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Greater Madawaska grades B: #62 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. A civic life grade combines library visits per resident, registered charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate, and all three exist for Greater Madawaska.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
No registered charity gives a Greater Madawaska mailing address
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%
Volunteering here is a provincial number: 32.1% of people across Ontario in 2023, likely 31.0% to 33.2%, set in a ten-province range of 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on 1 of 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 181 visits
The year 2024 at Greater Madawaska Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Greater Madawaska’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Greater Madawaska, as the crow flies.
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 Greater Madawaska
Does Greater Madawaska have a public library?
Yes: Greater Madawaska Public Library.
How busy is Greater Madawaska Public Library?
People made 9,412 visits in person and borrowed 13,629 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).