Photo: Sikander Iqbal · CC BY-SA 4.0Chinguacousy Branch is Norton Park’s public library
library branch serves the whole of Brampton, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 708,210 people, Norton Park among them. Loans ran to 3.4 items per person served in 2024. 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 OntarioBehind Norton Park’s civic life grade
With a C−, Norton Park ranks #779 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Norton Park: 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 Norton Park 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. 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
Per person served, against the 195 town libraries in Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 35,658 visits in a typical week
The year 2024 at library branch, in the library’s own counts.
Norton Park’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Norton Park.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The points are public libraries only, drawn from OpenStreetMap and from Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020).
Questions about the library and civic life in Norton Park
Does Norton Park have a public library?
Yes: Chinguacousy Branch.
How busy is library branch?
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).