Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Fewer loans per person served than 93% of Ontario’s town libraries: Magnetawan public library lends 1.9
Magnetawan public library counts 1,753 people in its service area. Visits ran to 3.9 per person served in 2024. Visits here are a typical week’s count times 52, Ontario’s method, so read them as an estimate.
BCivic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteeringWhat Magnetawan’s civic life grade weighs
Magnetawan’s civic life grade is B. 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 Magnetawan.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
5 registered charities are based in Magnetawan, by mailing address
That is 2.7 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 2 of 3 measures
Per person served, against the 195 town libraries in Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 132 visits in a typical week
The year 2024 at Magnetawan public library, in the library’s own counts.
The closest is 30 km from Magnetawan
In order of distance from the centre of Magnetawan, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020), merged; school, college, hospital and private libraries are left out.
Questions about the library and civic life in Magnetawan
Does Magnetawan have a public library?
No library is mapped inside Magnetawan, and the nearest one is Kearney and Area Public Library in Kearney.
How busy is Magnetawan public library?
It counted 6,864 in-person visits and lent 3,345 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).