Photo: Quinten Wiegersma · CC BY 4.0More loans per person served than 77% of Ontario’s town libraries: London public library lends 5.5
Uplands is served by London public library, the library of all of London, so the figures here are the city’s, for 439,385 people. Visits ran to 4.1 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 OntarioUplands’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Uplands grades C+: #605 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Uplands: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
London mailing addresses hold 633 registered charities
There is no count for Uplands 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%
Across Ontario, 32.1% of people volunteered through an organization in 2023, a provincial estimate with a likely range of 31.0% to 33.2%; the lowest province sits at 25.2% and the highest at 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 closest is 1.5 km from Uplands
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Uplands.
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 Uplands
Does Uplands have a public library?
No library is mapped inside Uplands, and the nearest one is London Public Library - Masonville in Masonville.
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).