Photo: Balcer · CC BY 2.5At 6.6 visits per person served, Shelburne Public Library is busier than 93% of Ontario’s town libraries
Shelburne Public Library has one location for the 8,989 people it serves. In 2024 it lent 5.4 items for every person it serves. Ontario counts visits over one typical week and multiplies by 52, so the yearly figure is an estimate.
BCivic life#64 of 866 in OntarioShelburne’s civic life grade, input by input
Shelburne gets a B for civic life, #64 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. Shelburne 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.
18 registered charities are based in Shelburne, by mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.7; 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%
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.
Ahead of 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 1,137 visits
What Shelburne Public Library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
Shelburne’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Shelburne.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from Shelburne or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
- Per person served. The library sets its own service population, and the rates here divide by it rather than by Shelburne’s census count.
Questions about the library and civic life in Shelburne
Does Shelburne have a public library?
Yes: Shelburne Public Library.
How busy is Shelburne Public Library?
In 2024 it logged 59,124 in-person visits and 48,591 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).