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Libraries · Innisfil

Innisfil’s public library works from 3 branches

The population Innisfil Public Library serves is 44,561. In 2024 it lent 4.1 items for every person it serves. Visits here are a typical week’s count times 52, Ontario’s method, so read them as an estimate.

CCivic life#750 of 866 in Ontario
Visits a year
159,848
3.6 per person served
Borrowed a year
182,844
4.1 per person served
Cardholders
41%
18,202 cards
Libraries
3
Charities
25
0.5 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

Behind Innisfil’s civic life grade

With a C, Innisfil ranks #750 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. 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 Innisfil.

C
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Innisfil’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

25 registered charities are based in Innisfil, by mailing address

Per 1,000 residents that makes 0.5; the median is 1.4 for Ontario towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. 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.

Volunteering

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.

How it compares

Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on all 3 measures

Measured per person served against the 195 town libraries of Ontario’s 2024 statistics.

Visits per person served 3.6 visits · typical 3.4Higher than 55%
Loans per person served 4.1 items · typical 4Higher than 54%
Cardholders 41% of people served · typical 27%Higher than 80%
Fewer per personMore per person
Who is compared

Town libraries only; regional systems left out.

A year at the library

About 3,074 visits in a typical week

Everything counted at Innisfil Public Library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.

159,848
in-person visits
3.6 per person served
182,844
items borrowed
4.1 per person served
18,202
cardholders
41% of people served
Every day501items borrowed
44,561 people served
The libraries

3 public libraries in Innisfil

In order of distance from the centre of Innisfil, as the crow flies.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Library locations. Locations merge two sources, OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, without school, college or hospital libraries.

Questions about the library and civic life in Innisfil

Does Innisfil have a public library?

Yes, 3: Innisfil Public Library - Cookstown Branch, Innisfil Public Library - Lakeshore Branch and Innisfil Public Library - Stroud Branch.

How busy is Innisfil Public Library?

It counted 159,848 in-person visits and lent 182,844 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).