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Libraries · Blake-Jones

Blake-Jones’s public library is Toronto Public Library - Pape/Danforth

The library figures on this page are Toronto’s: Toronto Public Library serves all 3,110,984 people of the city, Blake-Jones among them. 3.7 items per person served went out on loan in 2024. The yearly visit count is an estimate: Ontario libraries count a typical week, then multiply by 52.

B−Civic life#92 of 866 in Ontario
Visits a year
13,968,916
4.5 per person served
Borrowed a year
11,595,454
3.7 per person served
Cardholders
33%
1,031,274 cards
Libraries
1
Charities
5,846
1.8 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

Blake-Jones’s civic life grade, input by input

With a B−, Blake-Jones ranks #92 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. Blake-Jones has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.

B−
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Blake-Jones’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

5,846 registered charities are based in Toronto, by mailing address

There is no count for Blake-Jones 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. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.

Volunteering

32.1%

One figure covers all of Ontario: in 2023, 32.1% of its people gave time to an organization (between 31.0% and 33.2%), against a provincial range of 25.2% to 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

How it compares

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.

Visits per person served 4.5 visits · typical 3.4Higher than 72%
Loans per person served 3.7 items · typical 4Lower than 56%
Cardholders 33% of people served · typical 27%Higher than 68%
Fewer per personMore per person
Who is compared

Town libraries only; regional systems left out.

A year at the library

A typical week brings about 268,633 visits

The year 2024 at Toronto Public Library, in the library’s own counts.

13,968,916
in-person visits
4.5 per person served
11,595,454
items borrowed
3.7 per person served
1,031,274
cardholders
33% of people served
Every day31,768items borrowed
3,110,984 people served
The libraries

Blake-Jones’s public library

Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Blake-Jones.

How to read these numbers

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 Blake-Jones itself.

Questions about the library and civic life in Blake-Jones

Does Blake-Jones have a public library?

Yes: Toronto Public Library - Pape/Danforth.

How busy is Toronto Public Library?

Over 2024: 11,595,454 items out on loan, 13,968,916 visits through the door.

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).