Photo: Robert Taylor from Stirling, ON, Canada · CC BY 2.0Stirling has one public library, Stirling-Rawdon Public Library
Stirling-Rawdon Public Library serves 5,015 people from a single building. Its borrowers took out 4 items per person served in 2024. Like every Ontario library, it reports one typical week of visits, and the year is that week times 52: an estimate.
C+Civic life#332 of 866 in OntarioStirling’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Stirling grades C+: #332 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 Stirling.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
17 registered charities are based in Stirling, by mailing address
That is 3.1 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Ontario town and 1.4 across Canada. 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%
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 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 288 visits in a typical week
Everything counted at Stirling-Rawdon Public Library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
Stirling’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Stirling, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Statistics Canada’s 2020 facilities list and OpenStreetMap supply the points; libraries of schools, colleges and hospitals are not shown.
Questions about the library and civic life in Stirling
Does Stirling have a public library?
Yes: Stirling-Rawdon Public Library.
How busy is Stirling-Rawdon Public Library?
It counted 14,976 in-person visits and lent 19,825 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).