Photo: SimonP · CC BY-SA 3.0Dorset Park has one public library, Toronto Public Library - McGregor Park
Dorset Park is served by Toronto Public Library, the library of all of Toronto, so the figures here are the city’s, for 3,110,984 people. 3.7 items per person served went out on loan in 2024. Visits here are a typical week’s count times 52, Ontario’s method, so read them as an estimate.
B−Civic life#92 of 866 in OntarioDorset Park’s civic life grade, input by input
Dorset Park gets a B− for civic life, #92 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. A civic life grade combines library visits per resident, registered charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate, and all three exist for Dorset Park.
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 Dorset Park 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%
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.
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
The year 2024 at Toronto Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Dorset Park’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Dorset Park, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Dorset Park’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Dorset Park
Does Dorset Park have a public library?
Yes: Toronto Public Library - McGregor Park.
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).