Photo: Silver Dovelet · CC BY-SA 3.0Stouffville’s public library is Whitchurch-Stouffville Public Library
Whitchurch-Stouffville Public Library serves 37,730 people, only part of Stouffville, so its figures leave the rest out. In 2024 it lent 8 items for every person it serves. Ontario counts visits over one typical week and multiplies by 52, so the yearly figure is an estimate.
C−Civic life#835 of 866 in OntarioWhat Stouffville’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Stouffville grades C−: #835 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. Stouffville has charities and volunteering for a civic life grade, though not library visits, and two of the three are enough.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Stouffville mailing addresses hold 60 registered charities
Per 1,000 residents that makes 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%
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.
About 5,337 visits in a typical week
The year 2024 at Whitchurch-Stouffville Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Stouffville’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Stouffville.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The map joins OpenStreetMap with Statistics Canada’s 2020 cultural facilities list and leaves out school, college and private libraries.
Questions about the library and civic life in Stouffville
Does Stouffville have a public library?
Yes: Whitchurch-Stouffville Public Library.
How busy is Whitchurch-Stouffville Public Library?
277,524 in-person visits and 302,243 items borrowed 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).