Photo: Jfvoll · CC BY-SA 4.0More loans per person served than 77% of Ontario’s town libraries: London Public Library lends 5.5
The library figures on this page are London’s: London Public Library serves all 439,385 people of the city, Huron Heights among them. It counted 4.1 in-person visits 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#605 of 866 in OntarioBehind Huron Heights’s civic life grade
Civic life in Huron Heights grades C+: #605 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. Huron Heights has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
633 registered charities give a London mailing address
There is no count for Huron Heights on its own: the charities are those of all of London. It works out to 1.3 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Ontario town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
32.1%
In 2023, 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally: one estimate for the whole province, likely between 31.0% and 33.2%, in a range of 25.2% to 40.3% across the ten provinces.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on all 3 measures
Each figure is per person served, set against 195 town libraries in Ontario’s statistics for 2024.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 34,310 visits in a typical week
Everything counted at London Public Library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
Huron Heights’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Huron Heights.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Two sources make the map, OpenStreetMap and a 2020 Statistics Canada list, with academic and private libraries dropped.
Questions about the library and civic life in Huron Heights
Does Huron Heights have a public library?
Yes: London Public Library - Beacock.
How busy is London Public Library?
It counted 1,784,120 in-person visits and lent 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).