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Libraries · Uxbridge

Uxbridge has 3 public library branches

Uxbridge Public Library serves 21,410 people. 4.3 items per person served went out on loan in 2024. Visits here are a typical week’s count times 52, Ontario’s method, so read them as an estimate.

B−Civic life#259 of 866 in Ontario
Visits a year
79,456
3.7 per person served
Borrowed a year
91,638
4.3 per person served
Cardholders
18%
3,883 cards
Libraries
3
Charities
44
2 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

Uxbridge’s civic life grade, input by input

Uxbridge gets a B− for civic life, #259 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 Uxbridge.

B−
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Uxbridge’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

Uxbridge mailing addresses hold 44 registered charities

That is 2 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Ontario town and 1.4 across Canada. 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.

Volunteering

32.1%

In 2023, 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally: one estimate for the whole province, likely between 31.0% and 33.2%, in a range of 25.2% to 40.3% across the ten provinces.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

How it compares

Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on 2 of 3 measures

Each figure is per person served, set against 195 town libraries in Ontario’s statistics for 2024.

Visits per person served 3.7 visits · typical 3.4Higher than 58%
Loans per person served 4.3 items · typical 4Higher than 60%
Cardholders 18% of people served · typical 27%Lower than 83%
Fewer per personMore per person
Who is compared

Town libraries only; regional systems left out.

A year at the library

A typical week brings about 1,528 visits

What Uxbridge Public Library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.

79,456
in-person visits
3.7 per person served
91,638
items borrowed
4.3 per person served
3,883
cardholders
18% of people served
Every day251items borrowed
21,410 people served
The libraries

3 public libraries in Uxbridge

Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Uxbridge.

How to read these numbers

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 Uxbridge

Does Uxbridge have a public library?

Yes, 3: Uxbridge Public Library - Main Branch, Uxbridge Public Library - Zephyr Branch and Uxbridge Public Library - Zephyr Branch.

How busy is Uxbridge Public Library?

Over 2024: 91,638 items out on loan, 79,456 visits through the door.

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).