Photo: Martin Cathrae from Charlottetown, PE, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0More loans per person served than 88% of Ontario’s town libraries: Merrickville Public Library lends 6.8
Merrickville Public Library serves 3,135 people from a single building. 5.6 visits per person served came through its doors in 2024. Like every Ontario library, it reports one typical week of visits, and the year is that week times 52: an estimate.
B+Civic life#26 of 866 in OntarioBehind Merrickville’s civic life grade
Merrickville gets a B+ for civic life, #26 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 Merrickville.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
11 registered charities give a Merrickville mailing address
It works out to 3.2 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Ontario town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. 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 all 3 measures
Measured per person served against the 195 town libraries of Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
A typical week brings about 335 visits
What Merrickville Public Library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
Merrickville’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Merrickville.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A busy library may owe some of its visits to people who live outside Merrickville; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in Merrickville
Does Merrickville have a public library?
Yes: Merrickville Public Library.
How busy is Merrickville Public Library?
Its 2024 report counts 17,420 visits in person and 21,188 items lent.
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).