Photo: Newmila · CC BY-SA 4.0Toronto Public Library - S. Walter Stewart is Danforth East York’s public library
Toronto Public Library serves the whole of Toronto, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 3,110,984 people, Danforth East York 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 OntarioWhat Danforth East York’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Danforth East York grades B−: #92 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Danforth East York: 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 give a Toronto mailing address
There is no count for Danforth East York 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. 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.
32.1%
Statistics Canada puts formal volunteering in Ontario at 32.1% in 2023, somewhere between 31.0% and 33.2%, for every town in the province alike; provinces range from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
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.
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.
Danforth East York’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Danforth East York.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from Danforth East York or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
Questions about the library and civic life in Danforth East York
Does Danforth East York have a public library?
Yes: Toronto Public Library - S. Walter Stewart.
How busy is Toronto Public Library?
In 2024 it logged 13,968,916 in-person visits and 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).