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Libraries · Cliffcrest

Toronto Public Library - Cliffcrest is Cliffcrest’s public library

The library figures on this page are Toronto’s: Toronto Public Library serves all 3,110,984 people of the city, Cliffcrest among them. Its borrowers took out 3.7 items per person served in 2024. Ontario counts visits over one typical week and multiplies by 52, so the yearly figure is an estimate.

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

Cliffcrest’s civic life grade, input by input

With a B−, Cliffcrest ranks #92 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Cliffcrest: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.

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

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

5,846 registered charities give a Toronto mailing address

There is no count for Cliffcrest on its own: the charities are those of all of Toronto. It works out to 1.8 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Ontario town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. The CRA files each charity under its mailing address, so a service town collects its region’s charities and a suburb or rural municipality few.

Volunteering

32.1%

No town-level count exists, so the page uses Ontario as a whole: 32.1% volunteered formally in 2023, between 31.0% and 33.2%, while the provinces span 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

Each figure is per person served, set against 195 town libraries in Ontario’s statistics for 2024.

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

About 268,633 visits in a typical week

What Toronto Public Library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.

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

Cliffcrest’s public library

In order of distance from the centre of Cliffcrest, as the crow flies.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from Cliffcrest or not, and the statistics have no resident share.

Questions about the library and civic life in Cliffcrest

Does Cliffcrest have a public library?

Yes: Toronto Public Library - Cliffcrest.

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).