Photo: Sikander Iqbal · CC BY-SA 4.0No public library stands in Avondale: the closest, Toronto Public Library - North York Central Library, is 1.2 km away
The library figures on this page are Toronto’s: Toronto public library serves all 3,110,984 people of the city, Avondale among them. Loans ran to 3.7 items per person served in 2024. Like every Ontario library, it reports one typical week of visits, and the year is that week times 52: an estimate.
B−Civic life#92 of 866 in OntarioBehind Avondale’s civic life grade
Civic life in Avondale grades B−: #92 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. A civic life grade combines library visits per resident, registered charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate, and all three exist for Avondale.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
5,846 registered charities give a Toronto mailing address
There is no count for Avondale on its own: the charities are those of all of Toronto. It works out to 1.8 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.
32.1%
Across Ontario, 32.1% of people volunteered through an organization in 2023, a provincial estimate with a likely range of 31.0% to 33.2%; the lowest province sits at 25.2% and the highest at 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on 2 of 3 measures
Per person served, against the 195 town libraries in Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 268,633 visits in a typical week
The year 2024 at Toronto public library, in the library’s own counts.
The closest is 1.2 km from Avondale
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Avondale.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Visitors and people from nearby towns are in the count too; how many live in Avondale isn’t recorded.
Questions about the library and civic life in Avondale
Does Avondale have a public library?
No, but Toronto Public Library - North York Central Library in Willowdale West is the nearest public library to Avondale.
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).