Port Perry has one public library, Scugog Public Library

From the centre of Port Perry, it is 2.6 km away. Its libraries report as part of a wider system, so there are no figures for Port Perry in particular.

C⁻Civic life#777 of 866 in Ontario

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Libraries

Charities

1.2 per 1,000 residents

Civic life grade

Port Perry’s civic life grade, input by input

Port Perry gets a C− for civic life, #777 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. A civic life grade needs two of its three inputs, and Port Perry has charities and volunteering, though not library visits.

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Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Port Perry’s overall grade.

–Library visitsNo library board of its own C⁻Charities1.2 per 1,000 · Ontario towns 1.4 · Canada 1.4 C⁺Volunteering32.1% of residents · all of Ontario, 2023

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

Port Perry mailing addresses hold 29 registered charities

Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.2; 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.

Volunteering

32.1%

32.1% of people in Ontario did formal volunteering in 2023, a province-wide estimate between 31.0% and 33.2%; across the ten provinces the rate runs from 25.2% to 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

The libraries

Port Perry’s public library

Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Port Perry.

2.6kmScugog Public LibraryDirections →

How to read these numbers

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 Port Perry

Does Port Perry have a public library?

Yes: Scugog Public Library.

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).