Photo: Dillan Payne · CC BY-SA 4.0Toronto Public Library - Port Union is Centennial Scarborough’s public library
The library figures on this page are Toronto’s: Toronto Public Library serves all 3,110,984 people of the city, Centennial Scarborough among them. Loans ran to 3.7 items per person served 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 OntarioBehind Centennial Scarborough’s civic life grade
Centennial Scarborough gets a B− for civic life, #92 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. Centennial Scarborough 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.
Toronto mailing addresses hold 5,846 registered charities
There is no count for Centennial Scarborough 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%
Volunteering here is a provincial number: 32.1% of people across Ontario in 2023, likely 31.0% to 33.2%, set in a ten-province range of 25.2% to 40.3%.
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.
About 268,633 visits in a typical week
Everything counted at Toronto Public Library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
Centennial Scarborough’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Centennial Scarborough, as the crow flies.
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 Centennial Scarborough.
Questions about the library and civic life in Centennial Scarborough
Does Centennial Scarborough have a public library?
Yes: Toronto Public Library - Port Union.
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).