Photo: P199 · Public domainLanark Highlands Public Library draws 2.1 visits per person served, behind 79% of Ontario’s town libraries
A single building, Lanark Highlands Public Library, serves 5,338 people. Its borrowers took out 3.7 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.
C+Civic life#686 of 866 in OntarioLanark Highlands’s civic life grade, input by input
With a C+, Lanark Highlands ranks #686 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Lanark Highlands: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Lanark Highlands mailing addresses hold 15 registered charities
That is 2.4 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%
The 2023 survey gives Ontario one volunteering rate for all its towns, 32.1% (between 31.0% and 33.2%), while provinces run from 25.2% at the low end to 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.
About 219 visits in a typical week
The year 2024 at Lanark Highlands Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Lanark Highlands’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Lanark Highlands.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Per person served. The per-person figures use the library’s own service population, not the census count for Lanark Highlands.
Questions about the library and civic life in Lanark Highlands
Does Lanark Highlands have a public library?
Yes: Lanark Highlands Public Library.
How busy is Lanark Highlands Public Library?
For 2024 it reported 19,722 loans and 11,388 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).