Photo: Andre Carrotflower · CC BY-SA 4.0Fewer visits per person served than 84% of Ontario’s town libraries: Springwater Public Library counts 2
From 3 branches, Springwater Public Library serves 22,489 people. Its borrowers took out 4.1 items per person served in 2024. Visits here are a typical week’s count times 52, Ontario’s method, so read them as an estimate.
C−Civic life#837 of 866 in OntarioSpringwater’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Springwater grades C−: #837 of the 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 Springwater.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
27 registered charities give a Springwater mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.1; 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%
One figure covers all of Ontario: in 2023, 32.1% of its people gave time to an organization (between 31.0% and 33.2%), against a provincial range of 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on 2 of 3 measures
Each figure is per person served, set against 195 town libraries in Ontario’s statistics for 2024.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
A typical week brings about 846 visits
The year 2024 at Springwater Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
3 public libraries in Springwater
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Springwater.
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 Springwater
Does Springwater have a public library?
Yes, 3: Springwater Public Library - Midhurst Branch, Springwater Public Library - Elmvale Branch and Springwater Public Library - Minesing Branch.
How busy is Springwater Public Library?
Its 2024 report counts 43,992 visits in person and 92,953 items lent.
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).