Photo: Doug Kerr · CC BY-SA 2.0More visits per person served than 75% of Ontario’s town libraries: Clarence-Rockland Public Library counts 4.7
Clarence-Rockland Public Library has 2 branches for the 26,505 people it serves. Its borrowers took out 4.3 items 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.
C+Civic life#683 of 866 in OntarioWhat Rockland’s civic life grade weighs
Rockland gets a C+ for civic life, #683 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 Rockland.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Rockland mailing addresses hold 29 registered charities
That is 1 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Ontario town and 1.4 across Canada. 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%
For 2023, the provincial survey estimates that 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally (likely 31.0% to 33.2%); among the ten provinces the rate goes from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on all 3 measures
Measured per person served against the 195 town libraries of Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 2,380 visits in a typical week
The year 2024 at Clarence-Rockland Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Rockland’s 2 public libraries
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Rockland.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Visitors and people from nearby towns are in the count too; how many live in Rockland isn’t recorded.
Questions about the library and civic life in Rockland
Does Rockland have a public library?
Yes, 2: Clarence-Rockland Public Library - Bourget Branch and Clarence-Rockland Public Library - Rockland Branch.
How busy is Clarence-Rockland Public Library?
123,760 in-person visits and 114,493 items borrowed 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).