Photo: Andre Carrotflower · CC BY-SA 4.0More loans per person served than 84% of Ontario’s town libraries: Parry Sound Public Library lends 6.4
Parry Sound Public Library serves 6,879 people from a single building. Visits ran to 3.3 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#80 of 866 in OntarioWhat Parry Sound’s civic life grade weighs
Parry Sound gets a B− for civic life, #80 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Parry Sound: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
38 registered charities give a Parry Sound mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 5; the median is 1.4 for Ontario towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. 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%
The whole province shares one estimate: 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally in 2023 (between 31.0% and 33.2%), where the ten provinces run from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on 2 of 3 measures
Measured per person served against the 195 town libraries of Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 433 visits in a typical week
The year 2024 at Parry Sound Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Parry Sound’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Parry Sound, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Locations merge two sources, OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, without school, college or hospital libraries.
Questions about the library and civic life in Parry Sound
Does Parry Sound have a public library?
Yes: Parry Sound Public Library.
How busy is Parry Sound Public Library?
The 2024 totals: 22,516 in-person visits, 44,055 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).