Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Moonbeam public library lends 8.1 items per person served, more than 93% of Ontario’s town libraries
The population Moonbeam public library serves is 1,231. Visits ran to 4.3 per person served in 2024. The yearly visit count is an estimate: Ontario libraries count a typical week, then multiply by 52.
BCivic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteeringMoonbeam’s civic life grade, input by input
Moonbeam’s civic life grade is B. 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 Moonbeam.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Moonbeam mailing addresses hold 3 registered charities
Per 1,000 residents that makes 2.4; 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%
Statistics Canada puts formal volunteering in Ontario at 32.1% in 2023, somewhere between 31.0% and 33.2%, for every town in the province alike; provinces range 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.
A typical week brings about 102 visits
Everything counted at Moonbeam public library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
The closest is 13 km from Moonbeam
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Moonbeam.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The points are public libraries only, drawn from OpenStreetMap and from Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020).
Questions about the library and civic life in Moonbeam
Does Moonbeam have a public library?
No library is mapped inside Moonbeam, and the nearest one is Bibliothèque Municipale de Fauquier-Strickland in Ontario.
How busy is Moonbeam public library?
Over 2024: 10,002 items out on loan, 5,304 visits through the door.
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).