Photo: Town of Kirkland Lake · CC BY-SA 4.0Kirkland Lake’s public library is Teck Centennial Library
Teck Centennial Library serves 7,981 people from a single building. Loans ran to 3 items per person served in 2024. Like every Ontario library, it reports one typical week of visits, and the year is that week times 52: an estimate.
BCivic life#57 of 866 in OntarioWhat Kirkland Lake’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Kirkland Lake grades B: #57 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 Kirkland Lake.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
17 registered charities are based in Kirkland Lake, by mailing address
That is 2.1 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Ontario town and 1.4 across Canada. 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%
Formal volunteering is measured only for the province: 32.1% of Ontario’s people in 2023, give or take (31.0% to 33.2%), with the provinces between 25.2% and 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Behind most of Ontario’s town libraries on all 3 measures
Per person served, against the 195 town libraries in Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
A typical week brings about 422 visits
The year 2024 at Teck Centennial Library, in the library’s own counts.
Kirkland Lake’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Kirkland Lake.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020), merged; school, college, hospital and private libraries are left out.
Questions about the library and civic life in Kirkland Lake
Does Kirkland Lake have a public library?
Yes: Teck Centennial Library.
How busy is Teck Centennial Library?
In 2024 it logged 21,944 in-person visits and 24,241 loans.
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).