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Libraries · Stayner

Clearview 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 Ontario
Visits a year
55,952
3.8 per person served
Borrowed a year
49,224
3.3 per person served
Cardholders
16%
2,351 cards
Libraries
2
Charities
34
2.1 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

Stayner’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.

B−
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Stayner’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

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.

Volunteering

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.

How it compares

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.

Visits per person served 3.8 visits · typical 3.4Higher than 60%
Loans per person served 3.3 items · typical 4Lower than 66%
Cardholders 16% of people served · typical 27%Bottom 10%
Fewer per personMore per person
Who is compared

Town libraries only; regional systems left out.

A year at the library

About 1,076 visits in a typical week

Everything counted at Clearview Public Library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.

55,952
in-person visits
3.8 per person served
49,224
items borrowed
3.3 per person served
2,351
cardholders
16% of people served
Every day135items borrowed
14,814 people served
The libraries

Stayner’s 2 public libraries

Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Stayner.

How to read these numbers

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).