Photo: Scott Webb scottwebb · CC0At 5.5 loans per person served, London public library lends more than 77% of Ontario’s town libraries
The library figures on this page are London’s: London public library serves all 439,385 people of the city, Westminster among them. It counted 4.1 in-person visits per person served 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 OntarioBehind Westminster’s civic life grade
Westminster gets a C+ for civic life, #605 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. Westminster 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.
London mailing addresses hold 633 registered charities
There is no count for Westminster 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%
One figure covers all of Ontario: in 2023, 32.1% of its people gave time to an organization (between 31.0% and 33.2%), against a provincial range of 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.
About 34,310 visits in a typical week
The year 2024 at London public library, in the library’s own counts.
The closest is 1.9 km from Westminster
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Westminster.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. A library listed by both OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada appears once; campus, school and private ones are left off.
Questions about the library and civic life in Westminster
Does Westminster have a public library?
None is mapped in Westminster; the nearest is London Public Library - Jalna, in White Oaks.
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).