Photo: SimonP · CC BY-SA 3.0Bayview Village has no public library of its own; the nearest is Toronto Public Library - North York Central Library, 2.8 km away
The library figures on this page are Toronto’s: Toronto public library serves all 3,110,984 people of the city, Bayview Village among them. 3.7 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.
B−Civic life#92 of 866 in OntarioBehind Bayview Village’s civic life grade
Civic life in Bayview Village grades B−: #92 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. Bayview Village 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 Bayview Village 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. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
32.1%
The 2023 survey gives Ontario one volunteering rate for all its towns, 32.1% (between 31.0% and 33.2%), while provinces run from 25.2% at the low end 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.
A typical week brings about 268,633 visits
The year 2024 at Toronto public library, in the library’s own counts.
The closest is 2.8 km from Bayview Village
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Bayview Village.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A busy library may owe some of its visits to people who live outside Bayview Village; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in Bayview Village
Does Bayview Village have a public library?
Not in Bayview Village: the nearest public library is Toronto Public Library - North York Central Library, in Willowdale West.
How busy is Toronto public library?
People made 13,968,916 visits in person and borrowed 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).