Photo: Karl Brooks Heisey died December 7, 1937 · CC BY-SA 4.0Each person Balmertown Library serves borrows 1.6 items, fewer than at 96% of Ontario’s town libraries
Balmertown Library serves 4,094 people from a single building. 2.7 visits per person served came through its doors 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#267 of 866 in OntarioWhat Red Lake’s civic life grade weighs
With a B−, Red Lake ranks #267 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. Red Lake 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.
16 registered charities give a Red Lake mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 3.7; 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%
Between 31.0% and 33.2% of people in Ontario volunteered formally in 2023, 32.1% at the estimate’s middle; that is one figure for the province, which ranges from 25.2% to 40.3% nationally.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on 1 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 215 visits in a typical week
The year 2024 at Balmertown Library, in the library’s own counts.
Red Lake’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Red Lake.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The locations come from OpenStreetMap and from Statistics Canada’s cultural facilities list of 2020, public libraries only.
Questions about the library and civic life in Red Lake
Does Red Lake have a public library?
Yes: Balmertown Library.
How busy is Balmertown Library?
The 2024 totals: 11,180 in-person visits, 6,637 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).