Photo: Municipal Affairs and Housing · CC BY 2.0More visits per person served than 90% of Ontario’s town libraries: Oakville Public Library counts 6
From 8 branches, Oakville Public Library serves 240,000 people. Its borrowers took out 6.7 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.
B−Civic life#299 of 866 in OntarioWhat Oakville’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Oakville grades B−: #299 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. Oakville 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.
287 registered charities are based in Oakville, by mailing address
That is 1.2 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Ontario town and 1.4 across Canada. 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%
In 2023, 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally: one estimate for the whole province, likely between 31.0% and 33.2%, in a range of 25.2% to 40.3% across the ten provinces.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of 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 27,590 visits in a typical week
Everything counted at Oakville Public Library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
8 public libraries in Oakville
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Oakville.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from Oakville or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
Questions about the library and civic life in Oakville
Does Oakville have a public library?
Yes, 8: Oakville Public Library, Oakville Public Library, Clearview Neighbourhood Branch Library, Oakville Public Library - Clearview Branch and 4 more.
How busy is Oakville Public Library?
For 2024 it reported 1,601,236 loans and 1,434,680 in-person visits.
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).