Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0North Grenville Public Library draws 4.6 visits per person served, ahead of 75% of Ontario’s town libraries
The 16,451 people North Grenville Public Library serves have 2 branches to choose from. 3.9 items per person served went out on loan in 2024. Visits here are a typical week’s count times 52, Ontario’s method, so read them as an estimate.
B−Civic life#86 of 866 in OntarioKemptville’s civic life grade, input by input
Kemptville gets a B− for civic life, #86 of 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 Kemptville.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
35 registered charities give a Kemptville mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.8; 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%
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 1,469 visits in a typical week
Everything counted at North Grenville Public Library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
Kemptville’s 2 public libraries
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Kemptville.
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 Kemptville.
- Per person served. Figures are divided by the population the library says it serves, which can differ from the census count of Kemptville.
Questions about the library and civic life in Kemptville
Does Kemptville have a public library?
Yes, 2: North Grenville Public Library - Burrits Rapids Branch and North Grenville Public Library - Kemptville Branch.
How busy is North Grenville Public Library?
For 2024 it reported 64,631 loans and 76,388 in-person visits.
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).