Photo: Jfvoll · CC BY-SA 4.0Fewer visits per person served than 92% of Ontario’s town libraries: Perth East Public Library counts 1.5
A single building, Perth East Public Library, serves 12,595 people. In 2024 it lent 3.3 items for every person it serves. Visits here are a typical week’s count times 52, Ontario’s method, so read them as an estimate.
C−Civic life#771 of 866 in OntarioWhat Perth East’s civic life grade weighs
With a C−, Perth East ranks #771 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. Perth East 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.
22 registered charities are based in Perth East, by mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.6; the median is 1.4 for Ontario towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. 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%
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.
Behind 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 355 visits
What Perth East Public Library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
Perth East’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Perth East, 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 Perth East
Does Perth East have a public library?
Yes: Perth East Public Library.
How busy is Perth East Public Library?
In 2024 it logged 18,460 in-person visits and 42,069 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).