Toronto Public Library - Scarborough Civic Centre is Bendale-Glen Andrew’s public library
The library figures on this page are Toronto’s: Toronto Public Library serves all 3,110,984 people of the city, Bendale-Glen Andrew among them. Its borrowers took out 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 OntarioBendale-Glen Andrew’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Bendale-Glen Andrew grades B−: #92 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. Bendale-Glen Andrew 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 Bendale-Glen Andrew 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%
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.
About 268,633 visits in a typical week
What Toronto Public Library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
Bendale-Glen Andrew’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Bendale-Glen Andrew.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from Bendale-Glen Andrew or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
Questions about the library and civic life in Bendale-Glen Andrew
Does Bendale-Glen Andrew have a public library?
Yes: Toronto Public Library - Scarborough Civic Centre.
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).