Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Fewer loans per person served than 87% of Ontario’s town libraries: Hornepayne public library lends 2.3
The population Hornepayne public library serves is 1,050. It counted 5.6 in-person visits per person served in 2024. Visits here are a typical week’s count times 52, Ontario’s method, so read them as an estimate.
BCivic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteeringBehind Hornepayne’s civic life grade
Hornepayne gets a B for civic life. Hornepayne 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 give a Hornepayne mailing address
It works out to 5.4 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%
One figure covers all of Ontario: in 2023, 32.1% of its people gave time to an organization (between 31.0% and 33.2%), against a provincial 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
Per person served, against the 195 town libraries in Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 114 visits in a typical week
Everything counted at Hornepayne public library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Hornepayne’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Hornepayne
Does Hornepayne have a public library?
No public library is mapped in Hornepayne or within 60 km.
How busy is Hornepayne public library?
The 2024 totals: 5,928 in-person visits, 2,385 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).