Photo: Jfvoll · CC BY-SA 4.0London Public Library lends 5.5 items per person served, 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, White Oaks among them. Visits ran to 4.1 per person served in 2024. The yearly visit count is an estimate: Ontario libraries count a typical week, then multiply by 52.
C+Civic life#605 of 866 in OntarioWhat White Oaks’s civic life grade weighs
White Oaks gets a C+ for civic life, #605 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for White Oaks: 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.
633 registered charities give a London mailing address
There is no count for White Oaks 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%
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
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
Everything counted at London Public Library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
White Oaks’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of White Oaks, 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 White Oaks
Does White Oaks have a public library?
Yes: London Public Library - Jalna.
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).