Photo: Gogerr · CC BY-SA 4.0St. Mary's Public Library lends 9.5 items per person served, more than 97% of Ontario’s town libraries
St. Mary's Public Library has one location for the 7,390 people it serves. 5.2 visits per person served came through its doors in 2024. The yearly visit count is an estimate: Ontario libraries count a typical week, then multiply by 52.
B+Civic life#25 of 866 in OntarioSt. Marys’s civic life grade, input by input
St. Marys gets a B+ for civic life, #25 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for St. Marys: 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.
16 registered charities are based in St. Marys, by mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 2; 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%
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 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.
About 733 visits in a typical week
The year 2024 at St. Mary's Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
St. Marys’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of St. Marys.
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. Marys; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in St. Marys
Does St. Marys have a public library?
Yes: St. Mary's Public Library.
How busy is St. Mary's Public Library?
It counted 38,116 in-person visits and lent 70,367 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).