No public library stands in Deerfield: the closest, Brampton Library - Springdale Branch, is 1.6 km away
The library figures on this page are Brampton’s: Brampton public library serves all 708,210 people of the city, Deerfield among them. In 2024 it lent 3.4 items for every person it serves. The yearly visit count is an estimate: Ontario libraries count a typical week, then multiply by 52.
C−Civic life#779 of 866 in OntarioWhat Deerfield’s civic life grade weighs
Deerfield gets a C− for civic life, #779 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Deerfield: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
645 registered charities give a Brampton mailing address
There is no count for Deerfield 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%
Between 31.0% and 33.2% of people in Ontario volunteered formally in 2023, 32.1% at the estimate’s middle; that is one figure for the province, which ranges from 25.2% to 40.3% nationally.
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.
About 35,658 visits in a typical week
The year 2024 at Brampton public library, in the library’s own counts.
The nearest library is 1.6 km from Deerfield
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Deerfield.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The locations come from OpenStreetMap and from Statistics Canada’s cultural facilities list of 2020, public libraries only.
Questions about the library and civic life in Deerfield
Does Deerfield have a public library?
Not within Deerfield itself: the closest is Brampton Library - Springdale Branch, in Sandalwood West (sunny Meadow).
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).