Photo: DimiTalen · CC0Niagara-On-The-Lake Public Library draws 1.5 visits per person served, behind 91% of Ontario’s town libraries
A single building, Niagara-On-The-Lake Public Library, serves 19,088 people. Loans ran to 3.4 items per person served in 2024. Like every Ontario library, it reports one typical week of visits, and the year is that week times 52: an estimate.
C+Civic life#447 of 866 in OntarioNiagara-on-the-Lake’s civic life grade, input by input
With a C+, Niagara-on-the-Lake ranks #447 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. Niagara-on-the-Lake 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.
51 registered charities give a Niagara-on-the-Lake mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 2.5; 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%
For 2023, the provincial survey estimates that 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally (likely 31.0% to 33.2%); among the ten provinces the rate goes from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Behind 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.
About 546 visits in a typical week
What Niagara-On-The-Lake Public Library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
Niagara-on-the-Lake’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Niagara-on-the-Lake.
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 Niagara-on-the-Lake
Does Niagara-on-the-Lake have a public library?
Yes: Niagara-On-The-Lake Public Library.
How busy is Niagara-On-The-Lake Public Library?
28,392 in-person visits and 64,547 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).