Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainBrookhaven-Amesbury has one public library, Toronto Public Library - Amesbury Park
Toronto Public Library serves the whole of Toronto, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 3,110,984 people, Brookhaven-Amesbury among them. Loans ran to 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 OntarioBrookhaven-Amesbury’s civic life grade, input by input
With a B−, Brookhaven-Amesbury ranks #92 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Brookhaven-Amesbury: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial 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 Brookhaven-Amesbury 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.
32.1%
Between 31.0% and 33.2% of people in Ontario volunteered formally in 2023, 32.1% at the estimate’s middle; that is one figure for the province, which ranges from 25.2% to 40.3% nationally.
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.
A typical week brings about 268,633 visits
The year 2024 at Toronto Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Brookhaven-Amesbury’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Brookhaven-Amesbury.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Tourists, commuters and neighbours all add to the visits, and nobody records which of them live in Brookhaven-Amesbury.
Questions about the library and civic life in Brookhaven-Amesbury
Does Brookhaven-Amesbury have a public library?
Yes: Toronto Public Library - Amesbury Park.
How busy is Toronto Public Library?
People made 13,968,916 visits in person and borrowed 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).