Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0Each person West Perth Public Library serves borrows 6.1 items, more than at 80% of Ontario’s town libraries
West Perth Public Library serves 9,038 people from 2 branches. It counted 2.8 in-person visits per person served in 2024. Visits here are a typical week’s count times 52, Ontario’s method, so read them as an estimate.
B−Civic life#271 of 866 in OntarioMitchell’s civic life grade, input by input
With a B−, Mitchell ranks #271 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. 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 Mitchell.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
22 registered charities give a Mitchell mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 2.2; the median is 1.4 for Ontario towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. The CRA files each charity under its mailing address, so a service town collects its region’s charities and a suburb or rural municipality few.
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 1 of 3 measures
Measured per person served against the 195 town libraries of Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 488 visits in a typical week
The year 2024 at West Perth Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
2 public libraries in Mitchell
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Mitchell.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Statistics Canada’s 2020 facilities list and OpenStreetMap supply the points; libraries of schools, colleges and hospitals are not shown.
Questions about the library and civic life in Mitchell
Does Mitchell have a public library?
Yes, 2: West Perth Public Library and West Perth Public Library.
How busy is West Perth Public Library?
The 2024 totals: 25,376 in-person visits, 54,715 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).