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Libraries · Ebenezer West

Ebenezer West’s public library is Brampton Library - Claireville Branch

Ebenezer West is served by Brampton Library - Claireville Branch, the library of all of Brampton, so the figures here are the city’s, for 708,210 people. In 2024 it lent 3.4 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#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
Libraries
1
Charities
645
0.8 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

Behind Ebenezer West’s civic life grade

With a C−, Ebenezer West ranks #779 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. Ebenezer West 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 Ebenezer West’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 Ebenezer West 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. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.

Volunteering

32.1%

Across Ontario, 32.1% of people volunteered through an organization in 2023, a provincial estimate with a likely range of 31.0% to 33.2%; the lowest province sits at 25.2% and the highest at 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

How it compares

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

Per person served, against the 195 town libraries in Ontario’s 2024 statistics.

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

A typical week brings about 35,658 visits

The year 2024 at Brampton Library - Claireville Branch, in the library’s own counts.

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
The libraries

Ebenezer West’s public library

Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Ebenezer West.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Library locations. Public library locations are taken from OpenStreetMap and a 2020 Statistics Canada inventory, merged where both list one place.

Questions about the library and civic life in Ebenezer West

Does Ebenezer West have a public library?

Yes: Brampton Library - Claireville Branch.

How busy is Brampton Library - Claireville Branch?

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).