Bendale South’s public library is Toronto Public Library - Bendale
Bendale South is served by Toronto Public Library, the library of all of Toronto, so the figures here are the city’s, for 3,110,984 people. 3.7 items per person served went out on loan 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 OntarioWhat Bendale South’s civic life grade weighs
Bendale South gets a B− for civic life, #92 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. Bendale South 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 give a Toronto mailing address
There is no count for Bendale South 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%
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.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on 2 of 3 measures
Each figure is per person served, set against 195 town libraries in Ontario’s statistics for 2024.
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.
Bendale South’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Bendale South.
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 Bendale South; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in Bendale South
Does Bendale South have a public library?
Yes: Toronto Public Library - Bendale.
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).