Photo: Robert Taylor from Stirling, ON, Canada · CC BY 2.0Black Creek has no public library of its own; the nearest is Toronto Public Library - York Woods, 1 km away
The library figures on this page are Toronto’s: Toronto public library serves all 3,110,984 people of the city, Black Creek among them. In 2024 it lent 3.7 items for every person it serves. Visits here are a typical week’s count times 52, Ontario’s method, so read them as an estimate.
B−Civic life#92 of 866 in OntarioBlack Creek’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Black Creek grades B−: #92 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. Black Creek 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 Black Creek 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 whole province shares one estimate: 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally in 2023 (between 31.0% and 33.2%), where the ten provinces run from 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.
A typical week brings about 268,633 visits
What Toronto public library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
The nearest library is 1 km from Black Creek
In order of distance from the centre of Black Creek, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A library’s visits include people from neighbouring towns and visitors; the statistics don’t say how many come from Black Creek itself.
Questions about the library and civic life in Black Creek
Does Black Creek have a public library?
Not within Black Creek itself: the closest is Toronto Public Library - York Woods, in Glenfield-Jane Heights.
How busy is Toronto public library?
Its 2024 report counts 13,968,916 visits in person and 11,595,454 items lent.
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).