Photo: BrackishStowaway · CC0Beechborough-Greenbrook has no public library of its own; the nearest is Toronto Public Library - Evelyn Gregory, 1 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, Beechborough-Greenbrook among them. In 2024 it lent 3.7 items for every person it serves. 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 OntarioBeechborough-Greenbrook’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Beechborough-Greenbrook grades B−: #92 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Beechborough-Greenbrook: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial 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 Beechborough-Greenbrook 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%
No town-level count exists, so the page uses Ontario as a whole: 32.1% volunteered formally in 2023, between 31.0% and 33.2%, while the provinces span 25.2% to 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
Everything counted at Toronto public library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
The nearest library is 1 km from Beechborough-Greenbrook
In order of distance from the centre of Beechborough-Greenbrook, as the crow flies.
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 Beechborough-Greenbrook; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in Beechborough-Greenbrook
Does Beechborough-Greenbrook have a public library?
The map shows none in Beechborough-Greenbrook; Toronto Public Library - Evelyn Gregory, in Keelesdale-Eglinton West, is the closest.
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).