Photo: P199 · Public domainAt 7.3 visits per person served, Markstay-Warren Public Library - Markstay Branch is busier than 96% of Ontario’s town libraries
Markstay-Warren Public Library - Markstay Branch serves 2,656 people from a single building. Loans ran to 3.1 items per person served in 2024. Ontario counts visits over one typical week and multiplies by 52, so the yearly figure is an estimate.
BCivic life#37 of 866 in OntarioBehind Markstay-Warren’s civic life grade
Markstay-Warren gets a B for civic life, #37 of 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 Markstay-Warren.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
No registered charity gives a Markstay-Warren mailing address
Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
32.1%
Formal volunteering is measured only for the province: 32.1% of Ontario’s people in 2023, give or take (31.0% to 33.2%), with the provinces between 25.2% and 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 372 visits in a typical week
The year 2024 at Markstay-Warren Public Library - Markstay Branch, in the library’s own counts.
Markstay-Warren’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Markstay-Warren.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Tourists, commuters and neighbours all add to the visits, and nobody records which of them live in Markstay-Warren.
Questions about the library and civic life in Markstay-Warren
Does Markstay-Warren have a public library?
Yes: Markstay-Warren Public Library - Markstay Branch.
How busy is Markstay-Warren Public Library - Markstay Branch?
It counted 19,344 in-person visits and lent 8,325 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).