Photo: Joe Mabel (on Flickr as Joe Mabel from Seattle, US) · CC BY-SA 3.0Clearview Public Library - Sunnidale Branch and Clearview Public Library are Stayner’s two public libraries
Clearview Public Library has 2 branches for the 14,814 people it serves. Its borrowers took out 3.3 items per person served in 2024. Ontario counts visits over one typical week and multiplies by 52, so the yearly figure is an estimate.
B−Civic life#79 of 866 in OntarioStayner’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Stayner grades B−: #79 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 Stayner.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
34 registered charities are based in Stayner, by mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 2.1; 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 1 of 3 measures
Measured per person served against the 195 town libraries of Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 1,076 visits in a typical week
Everything counted at Clearview Public Library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
Stayner’s 2 public libraries
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Stayner.















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 Stayner
Does Stayner have a public library?
Yes, 2: Clearview Public Library - Sunnidale Branch and Clearview Public Library.
How busy is Clearview Public Library?
It counted 55,952 in-person visits and lent 49,224 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).