Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Sioux Lookout’s public library is Sioux Lookout Public Library
Sioux Lookout Public Library serves 5,840 people from a single building. 3 items per person served went out on loan in 2024. Ontario counts visits over one typical week and multiplies by 52, so the yearly figure is an estimate.
B+Civic life#31 of 866 in OntarioWhat Sioux Lookout’s civic life grade weighs
Sioux Lookout gets a B+ for civic life, #31 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. Sioux Lookout 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.
17 registered charities give a Sioux Lookout mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 2.8; 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%
In 2023, 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally: one estimate for the whole province, likely between 31.0% and 33.2%, in a range of 25.2% to 40.3% across the ten provinces.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on 1 of 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 503 visits
What Sioux Lookout Public Library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
Sioux Lookout’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Sioux Lookout.
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 Sioux Lookout isn’t recorded.
Questions about the library and civic life in Sioux Lookout
Does Sioux Lookout have a public library?
Yes: Sioux Lookout Public Library.
How busy is Sioux Lookout Public Library?
People made 26,156 visits in person and borrowed 17,639 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).