Photo: Jfvoll · CC BY-SA 4.0At 5.5 loans per person served, London public library lends more than 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, Oakridge among them. 4.1 visits per person served came through its doors in 2024. Ontario counts visits over one typical week and multiplies by 52, so the yearly figure is an estimate.
C+Civic life#605 of 866 in OntarioOakridge’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Oakridge grades C+: #605 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. Oakridge 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 Oakridge 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%
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
Each figure is per person served, set against 195 town libraries in Ontario’s statistics for 2024.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
A typical week brings about 34,310 visits
What London public library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
The nearest library is 2 km from Oakridge
In order of distance from the centre of Oakridge, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Locations merge two sources, OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, without school, college or hospital libraries.
Questions about the library and civic life in Oakridge
Does Oakridge have a public library?
Oakridge has none mapped; the closest public library is London Public Library - Byron, in Byron.
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).