Photo: Fabian Roudra Baroi · CC BY-SA 4.0Downsview’s public library is Toronto Public Library - Downsview
The library figures on this page are Toronto’s: Toronto Public Library serves all 3,110,984 people of the city, Downsview among them. Loans ran to 3.7 items per person served in 2024. 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 OntarioDownsview’s civic life grade, input by input
Downsview gets a B− for civic life, #92 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. Downsview 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 Downsview 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. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
32.1%
For 2023, the provincial survey estimates that 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally (likely 31.0% to 33.2%); among the ten provinces the rate goes 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.
About 268,633 visits in a typical week
Everything counted at Toronto Public Library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
Downsview’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Downsview.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Visitors and people from nearby towns are in the count too; how many live in Downsview isn’t recorded.
Questions about the library and civic life in Downsview
Does Downsview have a public library?
Yes: Toronto Public Library - Downsview.
How busy is Toronto Public Library?
13,968,916 in-person visits and 11,595,454 items borrowed in 2024.
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).