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Libraries · McKellar

At 2 loans per person served, McKellar public library lends less than 92% of Ontario’s town libraries

McKellar public library serves 1,419 people. It counted 2 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.

C+Civic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteering
DirectionsLibrary websiteNearest libraries
Visits a year
2,860
2 per person served
Borrowed a year
2,772
2 per person served
Cardholders
19%
267 cards
Charities
1
0.7 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

McKellar’s civic life grade, input by input

Civic life in McKellar grades C+. All three civic life inputs exist for McKellar: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.

C+
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of McKellar’s overall grade.
CLibrary visits2 per resident · Ontario towns 4.5B+Charities0.7 per 1,000 · Ontario towns 1.4 · Canada 1.4C+Volunteering32.1% of residents · all of Ontario, 2023

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

One registered charity gives a McKellar mailing address

That is 0.7 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Ontario town and 1.4 across Canada. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.

Volunteering

32.1%

For 2023, the provincial survey estimates that 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally (likely 31.0% to 33.2%); among the ten provinces the rate goes from 25.2% to 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

How it compares

Behind most of Ontario’s town libraries on all 3 measures

Measured per person served against the 195 town libraries of Ontario’s 2024 statistics.

Visits per person served 2 visits · typical 3.4Lower than 82%
Loans per person served 2 items · typical 4Bottom 10%
Cardholders 19% of people served · typical 27%Lower than 80%
Fewer per personMore per person
Who is compared

Town libraries only; regional systems left out.

A year at the library

About 55 visits in a typical week

What McKellar public library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.

2,860
in-person visits
2 per person served
2,772
items borrowed
2 per person served
267
cardholders
19% of people served
Every day8items borrowed
1,419 people served
Nearest libraries

The closest is 17 km from McKellar

Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of McKellar.

17kmParry Sound Public LibraryParry SoundDirections →31kmRosseau LibrarySeguinDirections →47kmMuskoka Lakes LibraryMuskoka LakesWebsite →54kmKearney and Area Public LibraryKearneyDirections →56kmHuntsville Public LibraryHuntsvilleDirections →
How to read these numbers

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 McKellar

Does McKellar have a public library?

Not in McKellar: the nearest public library is Parry Sound Public Library, in Parry Sound.

How busy is McKellar public library?

For 2024 it reported 2,772 loans and 2,860 in-person visits.

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).