Photo: P199 · Public domainMore loans per person served than 89% of Ontario’s town libraries: St. Charles public library lends 7.4
St. Charles public library serves 1,120 people. In 2024 it logged 4.8 visits for every person it serves. Like every Ontario library, it reports one typical week of visits, and the year is that week times 52: an estimate.
B−Civic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteeringBehind St.-Charles’s civic life grade
St.-Charles gets a B− for civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for St.-Charles: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
2 registered charities are based in St.-Charles, by mailing address
It works out to 1.2 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Ontario town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. 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%
The 2023 survey gives Ontario one volunteering rate for all its towns, 32.1% (between 31.0% and 33.2%), while provinces run from 25.2% at the low end to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on all 3 measures
Measured per person served against the 195 town libraries of Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
A typical week brings about 103 visits
The year 2024 at St. Charles public library, in the library’s own counts.
The nearest library is 18 km from St.-Charles
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of St.-Charles.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A busy library may owe some of its visits to people who live outside St.-Charles; the figure can’t tell them apart.
- Per person served. The library sets its own service population, and the rates here divide by it rather than by St.-Charles’s census count.
Questions about the library and civic life in St.-Charles
Does St.-Charles have a public library?
Not within St.-Charles itself: the closest is Markstay-Warren Public Library - Markstay Branch, in Markstay-Warren.
How busy is St. Charles public library?
People made 5,356 visits in person and borrowed 8,297 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).