Photo: Loozrboy from Toronto, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Birchcliffe-Cliffside’s public library is Toronto Public Library - Taylor Memorial
Birchcliffe-Cliffside 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. Loans ran to 3.7 items per person served in 2024. 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 OntarioWhat Birchcliffe-Cliffside’s civic life grade weighs
Birchcliffe-Cliffside gets a B− for civic life, #92 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. Birchcliffe-Cliffside 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 Birchcliffe-Cliffside on its own: the charities are those of all of Toronto. Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.8; the median is 1.4 for Ontario towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. 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%
In 2023, 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally: one estimate for the whole province, likely between 31.0% and 33.2%, in a range of 25.2% to 40.3% across the ten provinces.
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.
Birchcliffe-Cliffside’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Birchcliffe-Cliffside.
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 Birchcliffe-Cliffside; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in Birchcliffe-Cliffside
Does Birchcliffe-Cliffside have a public library?
Yes: Toronto Public Library - Taylor Memorial.
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).