Photo: Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0More loans per person served than 95% of Ontario’s town libraries: Stratford Public Library lends 9
Stratford Public Library has one location for the 33,232 people it serves. It counted 5.2 in-person visits 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.
B+Civic life#10 of 866 in OntarioWhat Stratford’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Stratford grades B+: #10 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 Stratford.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
106 registered charities give a Stratford mailing address
That is 2.9 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%
Statistics Canada puts formal volunteering in Ontario at 32.1% in 2023, somewhere between 31.0% and 33.2%, for every town in the province alike; provinces range from 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 3,333 visits
The year 2024 at Stratford Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Stratford’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Stratford.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A busy library may owe some of its visits to people who live outside Stratford; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in Stratford
Does Stratford have a public library?
Yes: Stratford Public Library.
How busy is Stratford Public Library?
People made 173,316 visits in person and borrowed 297,989 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).