Photo: Municipal Affairs and Housing · CC BY 2.0Orangeville has two public libraries, Alder Street Branch and Orangeville Public Library - Mill Street
The 30,637 people Orangeville Public Library serves have 2 branches to choose from. 5.2 items per person served went out on loan in 2024. Visits here are a typical week’s count times 52, Ontario’s method, so read them as an estimate.
B−Civic life#329 of 866 in OntarioOrangeville’s civic life grade, input by input
With a B−, Orangeville ranks #329 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. Orangeville 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.
Orangeville mailing addresses hold 51 registered charities
It works out to 1.5 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Ontario town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. 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%
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 2 of 3 measures
Each figure is per person served, set against 195 town libraries in Ontario’s statistics for 2024.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 2,533 visits in a typical week
Everything counted at Orangeville Public Library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
Orangeville’s 2 public libraries
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Orangeville.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The map joins OpenStreetMap with Statistics Canada’s 2020 cultural facilities list and leaves out school, college and private libraries.
Questions about the library and civic life in Orangeville
Does Orangeville have a public library?
Yes, 2: Alder Street Branch and Orangeville Public Library - Mill Street.
How busy is Orangeville Public Library?
The 2024 totals: 131,716 in-person visits, 158,029 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).