Photo: Derek Hatfield from Peterborough, Canada · CC BY 2.0Asphodel–Norwood Public Library logs 2.1 visits per person served, fewer than 81% of Ontario’s town libraries
The 4,658 people Asphodel–Norwood Public Library serves have 2 branches to choose from. Its borrowers took out 2.9 items per person served in 2024. Ontario counts visits over one typical week and multiplies by 52, so the yearly figure is an estimate.
CCivic life#699 of 866 in OntarioBehind Norwood’s civic life grade
Civic life in Norwood grades C: #699 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. Norwood 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.
Norwood mailing addresses hold 15 registered charities
Per 1,000 residents that makes 2.8; 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%
Between 31.0% and 33.2% of people in Ontario volunteered formally in 2023, 32.1% at the estimate’s middle; that is one figure for the province, which ranges from 25.2% to 40.3% nationally.
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.
A typical week brings about 186 visits
The year 2024 at Asphodel–Norwood Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Norwood’s 2 public libraries
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Norwood.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The locations come from OpenStreetMap and from Statistics Canada’s cultural facilities list of 2020, public libraries only.
Questions about the library and civic life in Norwood
Does Norwood have a public library?
Yes, 2: Asphodel–Norwood Public Library - Norwood Branch and Asphodel–Norwood Public Library - Westwood Branch.
How busy is Asphodel–Norwood Public Library?
In 2024 it logged 9,672 in-person visits and 13,292 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).