Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Fewer loans per person served than 88% of Ontario’s town libraries: Kapuskasing Library lends 2.2
Kapuskasing Library has one location for the 7,092 people it serves. Visits ran to 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.
C+Civic life#451 of 866 in OntarioWhat Kapuskasing’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Kapuskasing grades C+: #451 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. 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 Kapuskasing.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
24 registered charities give a Kapuskasing mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 2.7; 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.
32.1%
Statistics Canada puts formal volunteering in Ontario at 32.1% in 2023, somewhere between 31.0% and 33.2%, for every town in the province alike; provinces range from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Behind most of Ontario’s town libraries on all 3 measures
Measured per person served against the 195 town libraries of Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
A typical week brings about 273 visits
The year 2024 at Kapuskasing Library, in the library’s own counts.
Kapuskasing’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Kapuskasing.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Per person served. Per-person rates rest on the service area the library reports, which may be larger or smaller than Kapuskasing itself.
Questions about the library and civic life in Kapuskasing
Does Kapuskasing have a public library?
Yes: Kapuskasing Library.
How busy is Kapuskasing Library?
Over 2024: 15,584 items out on loan, 14,196 visits through the door.
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).