Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0At 5.9 visits per person served, Hanover Public Library is busier than 88% of Ontario’s town libraries
A single building, Hanover Public Library, serves 7,967 people. Loans ran to 5.7 items 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#22 of 866 in OntarioWhat Hanover’s civic life grade weighs
Hanover gets a B+ for civic life, #22 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Hanover: 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.
31 registered charities are based in Hanover, by mailing address
It works out to 3.6 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Ontario town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. 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%
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 2 of 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.
A typical week brings about 897 visits
The year 2024 at Hanover Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Hanover’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Hanover, 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 Hanover.
Questions about the library and civic life in Hanover
Does Hanover have a public library?
Yes: Hanover Public Library.
How busy is Hanover Public Library?
In 2024 it logged 46,644 in-person visits and 45,214 loans.
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).