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Libraries · Edenbridge-Humber Valley

Edenbridge-Humber Valley has no public library of its own; the nearest is Toronto Public Library - Richview, 1.9 km away

The library figures on this page are Toronto’s: Toronto public library serves all 3,110,984 people of the city, Edenbridge-Humber Valley among them. Loans ran to 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
Charities
5,846
1.8 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

Behind Edenbridge-Humber Valley’s civic life grade

Edenbridge-Humber Valley 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 Edenbridge-Humber Valley.

B−
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Edenbridge-Humber Valley’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

Toronto mailing addresses hold 5,846 registered charities

There is no count for Edenbridge-Humber Valley 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%

One figure covers all of Ontario: in 2023, 32.1% of its people gave time to an organization (between 31.0% and 33.2%), against a provincial range of 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

Measured per person served against the 195 town libraries of Ontario’s 2024 statistics.

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

A typical week brings about 268,633 visits

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
Nearest libraries

The closest is 1.9 km from Edenbridge-Humber Valley

Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Edenbridge-Humber Valley.

How to read these numbers

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 Edenbridge-Humber Valley isn’t recorded.

Questions about the library and civic life in Edenbridge-Humber Valley

Does Edenbridge-Humber Valley have a public library?

No library is mapped inside Edenbridge-Humber Valley, and the nearest one is Toronto Public Library - Richview in Willowridge-Martingrove-Richview.

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).