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Libraries · A-B-C-D-Section (bramalea)

No public library stands in A-B-C-D-Section (bramalea): the closest, Chinguacousy Branch, is 1.2 km away

The library figures on this page are Brampton’s: Brampton public library serves all 708,210 people of the city, A-B-C-D-Section (bramalea) among them. In 2024 it lent 3.4 items for every person it serves. Ontario counts visits over one typical week and multiplies by 52, so the yearly figure is an estimate.

C−Civic life#779 of 866 in Ontario
Visits a year
1,854,216
2.6 per person served
Borrowed a year
2,420,134
3.4 per person served
Cardholders
22%
153,509 cards
Charities
645
0.8 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

What A-B-C-D-Section (bramalea)’s civic life grade weighs

A-B-C-D-Section (bramalea) gets a C− for civic life, #779 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 A-B-C-D-Section (bramalea).

C−
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of A-B-C-D-Section (bramalea)’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

Brampton mailing addresses hold 645 registered charities

There is no count for A-B-C-D-Section (bramalea) on its own: the charities are those of all of Brampton. That is 0.8 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Ontario town and 1.4 across Canada. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.

Volunteering

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.

How it compares

Behind most of Ontario’s town libraries on all 3 measures

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

Visits per person served 2.6 visits · typical 3.4Lower than 72%
Loans per person served 3.4 items · typical 4Lower than 62%
Cardholders 22% of people served · typical 27%Lower than 68%
Fewer per personMore per person
Who is compared

Town libraries only; regional systems left out.

A year at the library

About 35,658 visits in a typical week

Everything counted at Brampton public library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.

1,854,216
in-person visits
2.6 per person served
2,420,134
items borrowed
3.4 per person served
153,509
cardholders
22% of people served
Every day6,631items borrowed
708,210 people served
Nearest libraries

The nearest library is 1.2 km from A-B-C-D-Section (bramalea)

In order of distance from the centre of A-B-C-D-Section (bramalea), as the crow flies.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Library locations. Locations merge two sources, OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, without school, college or hospital libraries.

Questions about the library and civic life in A-B-C-D-Section (bramalea)

Does A-B-C-D-Section (bramalea) have a public library?

The map shows none in A-B-C-D-Section (bramalea); Chinguacousy Branch, in Norton Park, is the closest.

How busy is Brampton public library?

For 2024 it reported 2,420,134 loans and 1,854,216 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).