Photo: Andre Carrotflower · CC BY-SA 4.0Terrace Bay Public Library logs 6.1 visits per person served, more than 92% of Ontario’s town libraries
Terrace Bay Public Library serves 1,528 people from a single building. Loans ran to 7.8 items per person served in 2024. The yearly visit count is an estimate: Ontario libraries count a typical week, then multiply by 52.
B+Civic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteeringWhat Terrace Bay’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Terrace Bay grades B+. 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 Terrace Bay.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
4 registered charities give a Terrace Bay mailing address
That is 2.6 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Ontario town and 1.4 across Canada. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
32.1%
32.1% of people in Ontario did formal volunteering in 2023, a province-wide estimate between 31.0% and 33.2%; across the ten provinces the rate runs from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on all 3 measures
Measured per person served against the 195 town libraries of Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 179 visits in a typical week
The year 2024 at Terrace Bay Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Terrace Bay’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Terrace Bay.
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 Terrace Bay; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in Terrace Bay
Does Terrace Bay have a public library?
Yes: Terrace Bay Public Library.
How busy is Terrace Bay Public Library?
The 2024 totals: 9,308 in-person visits, 11,897 loans.
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).