The nearest public library to Professors Lake is Brampton Library - Chinguacousy Branch, 2.2 km away
Brampton public library serves the whole of Brampton, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 708,210 people, Professors Lake among them. 3.4 items per person served went out on loan 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 OntarioProfessors Lake’s civic life grade, input by input
Professors Lake gets a C− for civic life, #779 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. A civic life grade combines library visits per resident, registered charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate, and all three exist for Professors Lake.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
645 registered charities are based in Brampton, by mailing address
There is no count for Professors Lake 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. 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%
One figure covers all of Ontario: in 2023, 32.1% of its people gave time to an organization (between 31.0% and 33.2%), against a provincial range of 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.
A typical week brings about 35,658 visits
What Brampton public library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
The closest is 2.2 km from Professors Lake
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Professors Lake.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. A library listed by both OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada appears once; campus, school and private ones are left off.
Questions about the library and civic life in Professors Lake
Does Professors Lake have a public library?
None is mapped in Professors Lake; the nearest is Brampton Library - Chinguacousy Branch, in H-Section (bramalea).
How busy is Brampton public library?
In 2024 it logged 1,854,216 in-person visits and 2,420,134 loans.
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).