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Libraries · Woodhill

Woodhill has no public library of its own; the nearest is Brampton Library - Gore Meadows Branch, 3.6 km away

The library figures on this page are Brampton’s: Brampton public library serves all 708,210 people of the city, Woodhill among them. 3.4 items per person served went out on loan 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 Woodhill’s civic life grade weighs

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

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

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

A typical week brings about 35,658 visits

Everything counted at Brampton public library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.

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 3.6 km from Woodhill

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

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 Woodhill

Does Woodhill have a public library?

None is mapped in Woodhill; the nearest is Brampton Library - Gore Meadows Branch, in Castlemore Estates.

How busy is Brampton public library?

Over 2024: 2,420,134 items out on loan, 1,854,216 visits through the door.

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).