Photo: Municipal Affairs and Housing · CC BY 2.0Each person Orillia Public Library serves borrows 9 items, more than at 96% of Ontario’s town libraries
Orillia Public Library has one location for the 34,412 people it serves. In 2024 it logged 6 visits for every person it serves. Visits here are a typical week’s count times 52, Ontario’s method, so read them as an estimate.
B+Civic life#14 of 866 in OntarioOrillia’s civic life grade, input by input
Orillia gets a B+ for civic life, #14 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. Orillia 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.
86 registered charities are based in Orillia, by mailing address
That is 2.3 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Ontario town and 1.4 across Canada. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
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
Per person served, against the 195 town libraries in Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
A typical week brings about 4,002 visits
The year 2024 at Orillia Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Orillia’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Orillia.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from Orillia or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
Questions about the library and civic life in Orillia
Does Orillia have a public library?
Yes: Orillia Public Library.
How busy is Orillia Public Library?
People made 208,104 visits in person and borrowed 310,413 items 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).