Photo: Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0Each person London Public Library serves borrows 5.5 items, more than at 77% of Ontario’s town libraries
London Public Library serves the whole of London, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 439,385 people, Central London among them. In 2024 it logged 4.1 visits for every person it serves. Visits here are a typical week’s count times 52, Ontario’s method, so read them as an estimate.
C+Civic life#605 of 866 in OntarioCentral London’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Central London grades C+: #605 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 Central London.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
633 registered charities are based in London, by mailing address
There is no count for Central London on its own: the charities are those of all of London. That is 1.3 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.
Ahead of 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 34,310 visits
The year 2024 at London Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Central London’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Central London.
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 Central London
Does Central London have a public library?
Yes: London Public Library - Central.
How busy is London Public Library?
People made 1,784,120 visits in person and borrowed 2,404,067 items 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).