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Libraries · E-F-K-Section (bramalea)

E-F-K-Section (bramalea) has no public library of its own; the nearest is Chinguacousy Branch, 0.9 km away

The library figures on this page are Brampton’s: Brampton public library serves all 708,210 people of the city, E-F-K-Section (bramalea) among them. Its borrowers took out 3.4 items per person served in 2024. 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 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

E-F-K-Section (bramalea)’s civic life grade, input by input

Civic life in E-F-K-Section (bramalea) grades C−: #779 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. E-F-K-Section (bramalea) has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.

C−
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of E-F-K-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 E-F-K-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%

Formal volunteering is measured only for the province: 32.1% of Ontario’s people in 2023, give or take (31.0% to 33.2%), with the provinces between 25.2% and 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

What Brampton public library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.

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 0.9 km from E-F-K-Section (bramalea)

Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of E-F-K-Section (bramalea).

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 E-F-K-Section (bramalea)

Does E-F-K-Section (bramalea) have a public library?

There isn’t one in E-F-K-Section (bramalea); people there use libraries such as Chinguacousy Branch, in Norton Park.

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).