Photo: GTD Aquitaine · Public domainEglinton East has no public library of its own; the nearest is Toronto Public Library - Bendale, 1.3 km away
Toronto public library serves the whole of Toronto, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 3,110,984 people, Eglinton East among them. Its borrowers took out 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 OntarioWhat Eglinton East’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Eglinton East grades B−: #92 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. Eglinton East 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 are based in Toronto, by mailing address
There is no count for Eglinton East on its own: the charities are those of all of Toronto. That is 1.8 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Ontario town and 1.4 across Canada. 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%
The whole province shares one estimate: 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally in 2023 (between 31.0% and 33.2%), where the ten provinces run 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.
The nearest library is 1.3 km from Eglinton East
In order of distance from the centre of Eglinton East, as the crow flies.
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 Eglinton East.
Questions about the library and civic life in Eglinton East
Does Eglinton East have a public library?
Eglinton East has none mapped; the closest public library is Toronto Public Library - Bendale, in Bendale South.
How busy is Toronto public library?
People made 13,968,916 visits in person and borrowed 11,595,454 items 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).