Photo: Balcer · Public domainWoodstock has one public library, Woodstock Public Library
Woodstock Public Library has one location for the 46,705 people it serves. In 2024 it lent 5.2 items for every person it serves. Like every Ontario library, it reports one typical week of visits, and the year is that week times 52: an estimate.
C+Civic life#677 of 866 in OntarioWoodstock’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Woodstock grades C+: #677 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. Woodstock 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.
89 registered charities are based in Woodstock, by mailing address
That is 1.6 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.
32.1%
No town-level count exists, so the page uses Ontario as a whole: 32.1% volunteered formally in 2023, between 31.0% and 33.2%, while the provinces span 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on 1 of 3 measures
Each figure is per person served, set against 195 town libraries in Ontario’s statistics for 2024.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 2,957 visits in a typical week
What Woodstock Public Library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
Woodstock’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Woodstock, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Per person served. The per-person figures use the library’s own service population, not the census count for Woodstock.
Questions about the library and civic life in Woodstock
Does Woodstock have a public library?
Yes: Woodstock Public Library.
How busy is Woodstock Public Library?
For 2024 it reported 242,299 loans and 153,764 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).