Photo: Boxcarphilly · CC BY 3.0Grey Highlands Public Library lends 6.3 items per person served, more than 83% of Ontario’s town libraries
Grey Highlands Public Library serves 10,424 people from 3 branches. Visits ran to 4.8 per person served in 2024. The yearly visit count is an estimate: Ontario libraries count a typical week, then multiply by 52.
B+Civic life#20 of 866 in OntarioBehind Grey Highlands’s civic life grade
Civic life in Grey Highlands grades B+: #20 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 Grey Highlands.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Grey Highlands mailing addresses hold 29 registered charities
It works out to 2.4 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%
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 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.
About 967 visits in a typical week
What Grey Highlands Public Library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
3 public libraries in Grey Highlands
In order of distance from the centre of Grey Highlands, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Tourists, commuters and neighbours all add to the visits, and nobody records which of them live in Grey Highlands.
Questions about the library and civic life in Grey Highlands
Does Grey Highlands have a public library?
Yes, 3: Grey Highlands Public Library - Flesherton, Grey Highlands Public Library - Kimberley and Grey Highlands Public Library - Markdale.
How busy is Grey Highlands Public Library?
50,284 in-person visits and 65,383 items borrowed 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).