Photo: Rick Harris from Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Trent Lakes Public Library draws 1.2 visits per person served, behind 96% of Ontario’s town libraries
Trent Lakes Public Library has 2 branches for the 6,439 people it serves. In 2024 it lent 1.8 items for every person it serves. Like every Ontario library, it reports one typical week of visits, and the year is that week times 52: an estimate.
CCivic life#755 of 866 in OntarioBehind Trent Lakes’s civic life grade
Trent Lakes gets a C for civic life, #755 of 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 Trent Lakes.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
11 registered charities give a Trent Lakes mailing address
That is 1.5 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%
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.
Behind 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.
About 145 visits in a typical week
The year 2024 at Trent Lakes Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Trent Lakes’s 2 public libraries
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Trent Lakes.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Public library locations are taken from OpenStreetMap and a 2020 Statistics Canada inventory, merged where both list one place.
Questions about the library and civic life in Trent Lakes
Does Trent Lakes have a public library?
Yes, 2: Trent Lakes Public Library - Main Branch and Trent Lakes Public Library - Helen Bowen Branch.
How busy is Trent Lakes Public Library?
The 2024 totals: 7,540 in-person visits, 11,694 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).