Photo: Joe Mabel (on Flickr as Joe Mabel from Seattle, US) · CC BY-SA 3.0Wasaga Beach Public Library logs 2.5 visits per person served, fewer than 75% of Ontario’s town libraries
A single building, Wasaga Beach Public Library, serves 24,860 people. Its borrowers took out 4 items per person served in 2024. Ontario counts visits over one typical week and multiplies by 52, so the yearly figure is an estimate.
C−Civic life#838 of 866 in OntarioBehind Wasaga Beach’s civic life grade
With a C−, Wasaga Beach ranks #838 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. Wasaga Beach has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Wasaga Beach mailing addresses hold 20 registered charities
It works out to 0.7 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%
The 2023 survey gives Ontario one volunteering rate for all its towns, 32.1% (between 31.0% and 33.2%), while provinces run from 25.2% at the low end to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on 2 of 3 measures
Measured per person served against the 195 town libraries of Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 1,176 visits in a typical week
What Wasaga Beach Public Library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
Wasaga Beach’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Wasaga Beach.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The map joins OpenStreetMap with Statistics Canada’s 2020 cultural facilities list and leaves out school, college and private libraries.
Questions about the library and civic life in Wasaga Beach
Does Wasaga Beach have a public library?
Yes: Wasaga Beach Public Library.
How busy is Wasaga Beach Public Library?
The 2024 totals: 61,152 in-person visits, 99,104 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).