Photo: Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0St. Thomas Public Library lends 8 items per person served, more than 93% of Ontario’s town libraries
St. Thomas Public Library has one location for the 42,840 people it serves. In 2024 it logged 3.4 visits for every person it serves. The yearly visit count is an estimate: Ontario libraries count a typical week, then multiply by 52.
B−Civic life#87 of 866 in OntarioBehind St. Thomas’s civic life grade
Civic life in St. Thomas grades B−: #87 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for St. Thomas: 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.
105 registered charities give a St. Thomas mailing address
That is 2.1 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Ontario town and 1.4 across Canada. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.
32.1%
No town-level count exists, so the page uses Ontario as a whole: 32.1% volunteered formally in 2023, between 31.0% and 33.2%, while the provinces span 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on all 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 2,805 visits
The year 2024 at St. Thomas Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
St. Thomas’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of St. Thomas, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. A library listed by both OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada appears once; campus, school and private ones are left off.
Questions about the library and civic life in St. Thomas
Does St. Thomas have a public library?
Yes: St. Thomas Public Library.
How busy is St. Thomas Public Library?
People made 145,860 visits in person and borrowed 342,768 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).