East Willowdale has no public library of its own; the nearest is Toronto Public Library - North York Central Library, 1.2 km away
The library figures on this page are Toronto’s: Toronto public library serves all 3,110,984 people of the city, East Willowdale among them. In 2024 it lent 3.7 items for every person it serves. 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 OntarioBehind East Willowdale’s civic life grade
With a B−, East Willowdale ranks #92 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. East Willowdale 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.
5,846 registered charities give a Toronto mailing address
There is no count for East Willowdale 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%
32.1% of people in Ontario did formal volunteering in 2023, a province-wide estimate between 31.0% and 33.2%; across the ten provinces the rate runs 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
Measured per person served against the 195 town libraries of 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.
The nearest library is 1.2 km from East Willowdale
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of East Willowdale.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Tourists, commuters and neighbours all add to the visits, and nobody records which of them live in East Willowdale.
Questions about the library and civic life in East Willowdale
Does East Willowdale have a public library?
Not within East Willowdale itself: the closest is Toronto Public Library - North York Central Library, in Willowdale West.
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).