Photo: Andre Carrotflower · CC BY-SA 4.0Each person Wawa Public Library serves borrows 2.5 items, fewer than at 84% of Ontario’s town libraries
Wawa Public Library serves 2,705 people from a single building. 3.4 visits per person served came through its doors in 2024. Like every Ontario library, it reports one typical week of visits, and the year is that week times 52: an estimate.
C+Civic life#446 of 866 in OntarioWhat Wawa’s civic life grade weighs
Wawa gets a C+ for civic life, #446 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 Wawa.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
14 registered charities are based in Wawa, by mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 4.8; the median is 1.4 for Ontario towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
32.1%
Across Ontario, 32.1% of people volunteered through an organization in 2023, a provincial estimate with a likely range of 31.0% to 33.2%; the lowest province sits at 25.2% and the highest at 40.3%.
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.
A typical week brings about 177 visits
What Wawa Public Library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
Wawa’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Wawa.
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 Wawa
Does Wawa have a public library?
Yes: Wawa Public Library.
How busy is Wawa Public Library?
People made 9,204 visits in person and borrowed 6,663 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).