Photo: Andre Carrotflower · CC BY-SA 4.0Penetanguishene Public Library logs 1.3 visits per person served, fewer than 95% of Ontario’s town libraries
A single building, Penetanguishene Public Library, serves 10,077 people. In 2024 it lent 5.8 items for every person it serves. Ontario counts visits over one typical week and multiplies by 52, so the yearly figure is an estimate.
C−Civic life#843 of 866 in OntarioPenetanguishene’s civic life grade, input by input
Penetanguishene gets a C− for civic life, #843 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. A civic life grade combines library visits per resident, registered charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate, and all three exist for Penetanguishene.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
12 registered charities are based in Penetanguishene, by mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.1; 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%
Volunteering here is a provincial number: 32.1% of people across Ontario in 2023, likely 31.0% to 33.2%, set in a ten-province range of 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on 1 of 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 243 visits
The year 2024 at Penetanguishene Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Penetanguishene’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Penetanguishene, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. A library listed by both OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada appears once; campus, school and private ones are left off.
Questions about the library and civic life in Penetanguishene
Does Penetanguishene have a public library?
Yes: Penetanguishene Public Library.
How busy is Penetanguishene Public Library?
People made 12,636 visits in person and borrowed 57,976 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).