Photo: Bbadgett · CC BY-SA 3.0Muskoka Lakes Library is Muskoka Lakes’s public library
Muskoka Lakes Library serves 7,652 people from a single building. Its borrowers took out 3.1 items per person served in 2024. Ontario counts visits over one typical week and multiplies by 52, so the yearly figure is an estimate.
B−Civic life#261 of 866 in OntarioWhat Muskoka Lakes’s civic life grade weighs
Muskoka Lakes gets a B− for civic life, #261 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. Muskoka Lakes 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.
No registered charity gives a Muskoka Lakes mailing address
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%
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 664 visits in a typical week
What Muskoka Lakes Library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
Muskoka Lakes’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Muskoka Lakes.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Tourists, commuters and neighbours all add to the visits, and nobody records which of them live in Muskoka Lakes.
Questions about the library and civic life in Muskoka Lakes
Does Muskoka Lakes have a public library?
Yes: Muskoka Lakes Library.
How busy is Muskoka Lakes Library?
The 2024 totals: 34,528 in-person visits, 24,057 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).