Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainMore loans per person served than 77% of Ontario’s town libraries: London Public Library lends 5.5
Medway is served by London Public Library, the library of all of London, so the figures here are the city’s, for 439,385 people. In 2024 it logged 4.1 visits for every person it serves. 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 Medway’s civic life grade
Civic life in Medway grades C+: #605 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. Medway 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 Medway 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. 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
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.
Medway’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Medway.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The points are public libraries only, drawn from OpenStreetMap and from Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020).
Questions about the library and civic life in Medway
Does Medway have a public library?
Yes: London Public Library - Sherwood Forest.
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).