Each 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, Lambeth 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 OntarioWhat Lambeth’s civic life grade weighs
Lambeth gets a C+ for civic life, #605 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. Lambeth 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 are based in London, by mailing address
There is no count for Lambeth on its own: the charities are those of all of London. Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.3; the median is 1.4 for Ontario towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. 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%
Statistics Canada puts formal volunteering in Ontario at 32.1% in 2023, somewhere between 31.0% and 33.2%, for every town in the province alike; provinces range from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on all 3 measures
Measured per person served against the 195 town libraries of Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
A typical week brings about 34,310 visits
Everything counted at London public library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
The nearest library is 1.1 km from Lambeth
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Lambeth.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The locations come from OpenStreetMap and from Statistics Canada’s cultural facilities list of 2020, public libraries only.
Questions about the library and civic life in Lambeth
Does Lambeth have a public library?
Not within Lambeth itself: the closest is London Public Library - Lambeth, in Talbot.
How busy is London public library?
Over 2024: 2,404,067 items out on loan, 1,784,120 visits through the door.
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).