Photo: WabbitWanderer from London, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0More loans per person served than 77% of Ontario’s town libraries: London public library lends 5.5
Westmount 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 OntarioWestmount’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Westmount grades C+: #605 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. A civic life grade combines library visits per resident, registered charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate, and all three exist for Westmount.
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 Westmount 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%
Volunteering here is a provincial number: 32.1% of people across Ontario in 2023, likely 31.0% to 33.2%, set in a ten-province 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
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
Everything counted at London public library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
The nearest library is 1.3 km from Westmount
In order of distance from the centre of Westmount, as the crow flies.
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 Westmount
Does Westmount have a public library?
The map shows none in Westmount; London Public Library - Bostwick, in Bostwick, is the closest.
How busy is London public library?
It counted 1,784,120 in-person visits and lent 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).