Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0At 10.7 loans per person served, Iroquois Falls Public Library lends more than 98% of Ontario’s town libraries
A single building, Iroquois Falls Public Library, serves 4,535 people. It counted 4.5 in-person visits per person served in 2024. Ontario counts visits over one typical week and multiplies by 52, so the yearly figure is an estimate.
BCivic life#32 of 866 in OntarioBehind Iroquois Falls’s civic life grade
With a B, Iroquois Falls ranks #32 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 Iroquois Falls.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Iroquois Falls mailing addresses hold 19 registered charities
It works out to 4.1 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Ontario town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.
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
Per person served, against the 195 town libraries in Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 395 visits in a typical week
What Iroquois Falls Public Library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
Iroquois Falls’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Iroquois Falls, 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 Iroquois Falls.
Questions about the library and civic life in Iroquois Falls
Does Iroquois Falls have a public library?
Yes: Iroquois Falls Public Library.
How busy is Iroquois Falls Public Library?
20,540 in-person visits and 48,728 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).