Photo: Huntsville Ontario · CC BY 2.0Each person Huntsville Public Library serves borrows 5.6 items, more than at 78% of Ontario’s town libraries
Huntsville Public Library serves 21,147 people from a single building. Visits ran to 4.2 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 life#34 of 866 in OntarioWhat Huntsville’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Huntsville grades B: #34 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Huntsville: 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.
Huntsville mailing addresses hold 54 registered charities
It works out to 2.3 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%
In 2023, 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally: one estimate for the whole province, likely between 31.0% and 33.2%, in a range of 25.2% to 40.3% across the ten provinces.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on 2 of 3 measures
Measured per person served against the 195 town libraries of Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 1,728 visits in a typical week
What Huntsville Public Library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
Huntsville’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Huntsville.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Two sources make the map, OpenStreetMap and a 2020 Statistics Canada list, with academic and private libraries dropped.
Questions about the library and civic life in Huntsville
Does Huntsville have a public library?
Yes: Huntsville Public Library.
How busy is Huntsville Public Library?
It counted 89,856 in-person visits and lent 118,984 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).