Photo: OldYorkGuy · CC BY-SA 3.03 public library branches serve Annex
Toronto Public Library serves the whole of Toronto, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 3,110,984 people, Annex among them. Its borrowers took out 3.7 items per person served 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 OntarioAnnex’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Annex grades B−: #92 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. Annex 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.
Toronto mailing addresses hold 5,846 registered charities
There is no count for Annex 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. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.
32.1%
Statistics Canada puts formal volunteering in Ontario at 32.1% in 2023, somewhere between 31.0% and 33.2%, for every town in the province alike; provinces range from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on 2 of 3 measures
Measured per person served against the 195 town libraries of Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
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.
Annex’s 3 public libraries
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Annex.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A library’s visits include people from neighbouring towns and visitors; the statistics don’t say how many come from Annex itself.
Questions about the library and civic life in Annex
Does Annex have a public library?
Yes, 3: Toronto Public Library - Palmerston, Toronto Public Library - Spadina Road and Toronto Public Library - Yorkville.
How busy is Toronto Public Library?
It counted 13,968,916 in-person visits and lent 11,595,454 items 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).