Photo: Community Archives · CC0Tweed Public Library is Tweed’s public library
Tweed Public Library has one location for the 6,067 people it serves. Its borrowers took out 2.9 items per person served in 2024. Visits here are a typical week’s count times 52, Ontario’s method, so read them as an estimate.
C+Civic life#452 of 866 in OntarioBehind Tweed’s civic life grade
Tweed gets a C+ for civic life, #452 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Tweed: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Tweed mailing addresses hold 18 registered charities
It works out to 2.8 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Ontario town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
32.1%
Between 31.0% and 33.2% of people in Ontario volunteered formally in 2023, 32.1% at the estimate’s middle; that is one figure for the province, which ranges from 25.2% to 40.3% nationally.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Behind 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 309 visits in a typical week
The year 2024 at Tweed Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Tweed’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Tweed.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The points are public libraries only, drawn from OpenStreetMap and from Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020).
Questions about the library and civic life in Tweed
Does Tweed have a public library?
Yes: Tweed Public Library.
How busy is Tweed Public Library?
It counted 16,068 in-person visits and lent 17,675 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).