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Libraries · Bathurst Manor

No public library stands in Bathurst Manor: the closest, Toronto Public Library - Centennial, is 1.4 km away

Toronto public library serves the whole of Toronto, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 3,110,984 people, Bathurst Manor among them. 3.7 items per person served went out on loan in 2024. Visits here are a typical week’s count times 52, Ontario’s method, so read them as an estimate.

B−Civic life#92 of 866 in Ontario
Visits a year
13,968,916
4.5 per person served
Borrowed a year
11,595,454
3.7 per person served
Cardholders
33%
1,031,274 cards
Charities
5,846
1.8 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

Behind Bathurst Manor’s civic life grade

Civic life in Bathurst Manor 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 Bathurst Manor.

B−
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Bathurst Manor’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

5,846 registered charities give a Toronto mailing address

There is no count for Bathurst Manor 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. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.

Volunteering

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.

How it compares

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.

Visits per person served 4.5 visits · typical 3.4Higher than 72%
Loans per person served 3.7 items · typical 4Lower than 56%
Cardholders 33% of people served · typical 27%Higher 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 268,633 visits

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

13,968,916
in-person visits
4.5 per person served
11,595,454
items borrowed
3.7 per person served
1,031,274
cardholders
33% of people served
Every day31,768items borrowed
3,110,984 people served
Nearest libraries

The closest is 1.4 km from Bathurst Manor

Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Bathurst Manor.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Bathurst Manor’s residents and everyone else who walks in.

Questions about the library and civic life in Bathurst Manor

Does Bathurst Manor have a public library?

None is mapped in Bathurst Manor; the nearest is Toronto Public Library - Centennial, in Westminster-Branson.

How busy is Toronto public library?

Over 2024: 11,595,454 items out on loan, 13,968,916 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).