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Libraries · Spring Valley

The nearest public library to Spring Valley is Brampton Library - Mount Pleasant Village Branch, 1.1 km away

The library figures on this page are Brampton’s: Brampton public library serves all 708,210 people of the city, Spring Valley among them. Loans ran to 3.4 items per person served in 2024. 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

What Spring Valley’s civic life grade weighs

With a C−, Spring Valley ranks #779 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Spring Valley: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.

C−
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Spring Valley’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

645 registered charities give a Brampton mailing address

There is no count for Spring Valley 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. 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%

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.

How it compares

Behind most of Ontario’s town libraries on all 3 measures

Measured per person served against the 195 town libraries of 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

About 35,658 visits in a typical week

What Brampton public library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.

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 closest is 1.1 km from Spring Valley

Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Spring Valley.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Library locations. Only public libraries are mapped: OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, with school and university libraries removed.

Questions about the library and civic life in Spring Valley

Does Spring Valley have a public library?

No library is mapped inside Spring Valley, and the nearest one is Brampton Library - Mount Pleasant Village Branch in Mount Pleasant Village.

How busy is Brampton public library?

The 2024 totals: 1,854,216 in-person visits, 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).