Hickory Woods has no public library of its own; the nearest is Brampton Library - South Fletcher's 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, Hickory Woods among them. Loans ran to 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 OntarioWhat Hickory Woods’s civic life grade weighs
Hickory Woods gets a C− for civic life, #779 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Hickory Woods: 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.
Brampton mailing addresses hold 645 registered charities
There is no count for Hickory Woods on its own: the charities are those of all of Brampton. It works out to 0.8 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Ontario town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.
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
Each figure is per person served, set against 195 town libraries in Ontario’s statistics for 2024.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 35,658 visits in a typical week
Everything counted at Brampton public library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
The closest is 0.9 km from Hickory Woods
In order of distance from the centre of Hickory Woods, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Statistics Canada’s 2020 facilities list and OpenStreetMap supply the points; libraries of schools, colleges and hospitals are not shown.
Questions about the library and civic life in Hickory Woods
Does Hickory Woods have a public library?
No library is mapped inside Hickory Woods, and the nearest one is Brampton Library - South Fletcher's Branch in Sheridan.
How busy is Brampton public 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).