Photo: Andre Carrotflower · CC BY-SA 4.0Each person Webby Public Library serves borrows 2.4 items, fewer than at 85% of Ontario’s town libraries
Webby Public Library serves 3,237 people from a single building. Visits ran to 2.8 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#635 of 866 in OntarioBehind Sables-Spanish Rivers’s civic life grade
Sables-Spanish Rivers gets a C+ for civic life, #635 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. Sables-Spanish Rivers 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.
9 registered charities are based in Sables-Spanish Rivers, by mailing address
That is 2.6 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Ontario town and 1.4 across Canada. 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%
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.
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.
About 177 visits in a typical week
What Webby Public Library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
Sables-Spanish Rivers’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Sables-Spanish Rivers.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Statistics Canada’s 2020 facilities list and OpenStreetMap supply the points; libraries of schools, colleges and hospitals are not shown.
Questions about the library and civic life in Sables-Spanish Rivers
Does Sables-Spanish Rivers have a public library?
Yes: Webby Public Library.
How busy is Webby Public Library?
It counted 9,204 in-person visits and lent 7,714 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).