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Libraries · Royal Orchard

No public library stands in Royal Orchard: the closest, Brampton Library - Four Corners Branch, is 2.5 km away

Royal Orchard 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

Royal Orchard’s civic life grade, input by input

With a C−, Royal Orchard ranks #779 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. Royal Orchard 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 Royal Orchard’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 Royal Orchard 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.

Volunteering

32.1%

32.1% of people in Ontario did formal volunteering in 2023, a province-wide estimate between 31.0% and 33.2%; across the ten provinces the rate runs 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

Each figure is per person served, set against 195 town libraries in Ontario’s statistics for 2024.

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

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 2.5 km from Royal Orchard

Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Royal Orchard.

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 Royal Orchard

Does Royal Orchard have a public library?

The map shows none in Royal Orchard; Brampton Library - Four Corners Branch, in Downtown, is the closest.

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).