Photo: Amakuha · CC BY 4.0At 2.8 loans per person served, Marmora & Lake Public Library lends less than 78% of Ontario’s town libraries
Marmora & Lake Public Library serves 4,267 people from a single building. It counted 3.4 in-person visits per person served in 2024. The yearly visit count is an estimate: Ontario libraries count a typical week, then multiply by 52.
B−Civic life#268 of 866 in OntarioMarmora’s civic life grade, input by input
With a B−, Marmora ranks #268 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. Marmora 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.
Marmora mailing addresses hold 9 registered charities
Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.9; the median is 1.4 for Ontario towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
32.1%
Between 31.0% and 33.2% of people in Ontario volunteered formally in 2023, 32.1% at the estimate’s middle; that is one figure for the province, which ranges from 25.2% to 40.3% nationally.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Behind 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.
A typical week brings about 276 visits
The year 2024 at Marmora & Lake Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Marmora’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Marmora.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Two sources make the map, OpenStreetMap and a 2020 Statistics Canada list, with academic and private libraries dropped.
Questions about the library and civic life in Marmora
Does Marmora have a public library?
Yes: Marmora & Lake Public Library.
How busy is Marmora & Lake Public Library?
In 2024 it logged 14,352 in-person visits and 12,019 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).