Photo: JustSomePics · CC BY-SA 4.0Meaford Public Library draws 7.2 visits per person served, ahead of 95% of Ontario’s town libraries
Meaford Public Library has one location for the 11,485 people it serves. In 2024 it lent 6.4 items for every person it serves. Visits here are a typical week’s count times 52, Ontario’s method, so read them as an estimate.
B+Civic life#13 of 866 in OntarioWhat Meaford’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Meaford grades B+: #13 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. Meaford 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.
Meaford mailing addresses hold 28 registered charities
It works out to 2.2 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Ontario town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.
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 all 3 measures
Per person served, against the 195 town libraries in Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 1,580 visits in a typical week
The year 2024 at Meaford Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Meaford’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Meaford, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Meaford’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Meaford
Does Meaford have a public library?
Yes: Meaford Public Library.
How busy is Meaford Public Library?
82,160 in-person visits and 73,269 items borrowed 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).