The nearest public library to Centre is Brampton Library - Four Corners Branch, 2 km away
Brampton public library serves the whole of Brampton, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 708,210 people, Centre among them. In 2024 it lent 3.4 items for every person it serves. Visits here are a typical week’s count times 52, Ontario’s method, so read them as an estimate.
C−Civic life#779 of 866 in OntarioWhat Centre’s civic life grade weighs
Centre gets a C− for civic life, #779 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. Centre 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.
Brampton mailing addresses hold 645 registered charities
There is no count for Centre on its own: the charities are those of all of Brampton. Per 1,000 residents that makes 0.8; the median is 1.4 for Ontario towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. 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%
The whole province shares one estimate: 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally in 2023 (between 31.0% and 33.2%), where the ten provinces run from 25.2% to 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 35,658 visits
The year 2024 at Brampton public library, in the library’s own counts.
The nearest library is 2 km from Centre
In order of distance from the centre of Centre, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. A library listed by both OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada appears once; campus, school and private ones are left off.
Questions about the library and civic life in Centre
Does Centre have a public library?
Not within Centre itself: the closest is Brampton Library - Four Corners Branch, in Downtown.
How busy is Brampton public library?
People made 1,854,216 visits in person and borrowed 2,420,134 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).