Photo: SimonP · CC BY-SA 3.0Alderwood has one public library, Toronto Public Library - Alderwood
The library figures on this page are Toronto’s: Toronto Public Library serves all 3,110,984 people of the city, Alderwood among them. 3.7 items per person served went out on loan in 2024. Ontario counts visits over one typical week and multiplies by 52, so the yearly figure is an estimate.
B−Civic life#92 of 866 in OntarioBehind Alderwood’s civic life grade
Alderwood gets a B− for civic life, #92 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. Alderwood has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
5,846 registered charities are based in Toronto, by mailing address
There is no count for Alderwood on its own: the charities are those of all of Toronto. That is 1.8 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Ontario town and 1.4 across Canada. 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%
Formal volunteering is measured only for the province: 32.1% of Ontario’s people in 2023, give or take (31.0% to 33.2%), with the provinces between 25.2% and 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on 2 of 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.
About 268,633 visits in a typical week
Everything counted at Toronto Public Library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
Alderwood’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Alderwood.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Tourists, commuters and neighbours all add to the visits, and nobody records which of them live in Alderwood.
Questions about the library and civic life in Alderwood
Does Alderwood have a public library?
Yes: Toronto Public Library - Alderwood.
How busy is Toronto Public Library?
The 2024 totals: 13,968,916 in-person visits, 11,595,454 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).