More 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, Hyde Park among them. 4.1 visits per person served came through its doors 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 OntarioHyde Park’s civic life grade, input by input
Hyde Park gets a C+ for civic life, #605 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. Hyde Park 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 Hyde Park 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. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.
32.1%
The whole province shares one estimate: 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally in 2023 (between 31.0% and 33.2%), where the ten provinces run from 25.2% to 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.
About 34,310 visits in a typical week
The year 2024 at London public library, in the library’s own counts.
The nearest library is 1.7 km from Hyde Park
In order of distance from the centre of Hyde Park, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Only public libraries are mapped: OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, with school and university libraries removed.
Questions about the library and civic life in Hyde Park
Does Hyde Park have a public library?
Hyde Park has none mapped; the closest public library is London Public Library - Sherwood Forest, in Medway.
How busy is London public library?
The 2024 totals: 1,784,120 in-person visits, 2,404,067 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).