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Libraries · Heart Lake North

Brampton Library - Cyril Clark Branch is Heart Lake North’s public library

Heart Lake North is served by Brampton Library, the library of all of Brampton, so the figures here are the city’s, for 708,210 people. 3.4 items per person served went out on loan in 2024. The yearly visit count is an estimate: Ontario libraries count a typical week, then multiply by 52.

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

What Heart Lake North’s civic life grade weighs

Civic life in Heart Lake North grades C−: #779 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Heart Lake North: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.

C−
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Heart Lake North’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

645 registered charities are based in Brampton, by mailing address

There is no count for Heart Lake North 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. 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%

Statistics Canada puts formal volunteering in Ontario at 32.1% in 2023, somewhere between 31.0% and 33.2%, for every town in the province alike; provinces range from 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

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

About 35,658 visits in a typical week

Everything counted at Brampton 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
The libraries

Heart Lake North’s public library

Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Heart Lake North.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Library locations. Two sources make the map, OpenStreetMap and a 2020 Statistics Canada list, with academic and private libraries dropped.

Questions about the library and civic life in Heart Lake North

Does Heart Lake North have a public library?

Yes: Brampton Library - Cyril Clark Branch.

How busy is Brampton Library?

1,854,216 in-person visits and 2,420,134 items borrowed 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).