Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0More loans per person served than 85% of Ontario’s town libraries: Wainfleet Public Library lends 6.6
Wainfleet Public Library serves 6,887 people from a single building. It counted 3 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.
CCivic life#697 of 866 in OntarioWhat Wainfleet’s civic life grade weighs
Wainfleet gets a C for civic life, #697 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Wainfleet: 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.
9 registered charities give a Wainfleet mailing address
It works out to 1.2 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Ontario town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. 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%
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.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on 2 of 3 measures
Per person served, against the 195 town libraries in Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 391 visits in a typical week
The year 2024 at Wainfleet Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Wainfleet’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Wainfleet.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Two sources make the map, OpenStreetMap and a 2020 Statistics Canada list, with academic and private libraries dropped.
Questions about the library and civic life in Wainfleet
Does Wainfleet have a public library?
Yes: Wainfleet Public Library.
How busy is Wainfleet Public Library?
For 2024 it reported 45,432 loans and 20,332 in-person visits.
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).