Photo: Geo Swan from Toronto, Canada · CC0No public library stands in Church-Wellesley: the closest, Toronto Public Library - Toronto Reference Library, is 0.6 km away
The library figures on this page are Toronto’s: Toronto public library serves all 3,110,984 people of the city, Church-Wellesley among them. In 2024 it lent 3.7 items for every person it serves. 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 OntarioBehind Church-Wellesley’s civic life grade
Church-Wellesley gets a B− for civic life, #92 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. Church-Wellesley 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 Church-Wellesley 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%
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
Each figure is per person served, set against 195 town libraries in Ontario’s statistics for 2024.
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 0.6 km from Church-Wellesley
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Church-Wellesley.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Church-Wellesley’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Church-Wellesley
Does Church-Wellesley have a public library?
The map shows none in Church-Wellesley; Toronto Public Library - Toronto Reference Library, in Rosedale-Moore Park, is the closest.
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).