Photo: South Algonquin Business Alliance · CC BY-SA 4.0At 7.5 loans per person served, South Algonquin public library lends more than 89% of Ontario’s town libraries
South Algonquin public library serves 1,055 people from a single building. It counted 2.6 in-person visits per person served in 2024. Ontario counts visits over one typical week and multiplies by 52, so the yearly figure is an estimate.
CCivic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteeringBehind South Algonquin’s civic life grade
South Algonquin’s civic life grade is C. 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 South Algonquin.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
No registered charity gives a South Algonquin mailing address
Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
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 2 of 3 measures
Per person served, against the 195 town libraries in Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 53 visits in a typical week
What South Algonquin public library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
The closest is 35 km from South Algonquin
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of South Algonquin.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020), merged; school, college, hospital and private libraries are left out.
Questions about the library and civic life in South Algonquin
Does South Algonquin have a public library?
None is mapped in South Algonquin; the nearest is Madawaska Valley Public Library, in Barry's Bay.
How busy is South Algonquin public library?
2,756 in-person visits and 7,952 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).