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Libraries · Peel Village

No public library stands in Peel Village: the closest, Brampton Public Library, is 1.5 km away

Peel Village is served by Brampton public library, 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. 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
Charities
645
0.8 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

Behind Peel Village’s civic life grade

Civic life in Peel Village grades C−: #779 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. Peel Village 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 Peel Village’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 Peel Village 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%

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.

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 public library, 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
Nearest libraries

The nearest library is 1.5 km from Peel Village

In order of distance from the centre of Peel Village, as the crow flies.

How to read these numbers

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 Peel Village

Does Peel Village have a public library?

The map shows none in Peel Village; Brampton Public Library, in Ridgehill / Armbro Heights, is the closest.

How busy is Brampton public library?

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).