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Libraries · Eringate-Centennial-West Deane

Toronto Public Library - Elmbrook Park is Eringate-Centennial-West Deane’s public library

The library figures on this page are Toronto’s: Toronto Public Library serves all 3,110,984 people of the city, Eringate-Centennial-West Deane among them. Loans ran to 3.7 items per person served 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 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
Libraries
1
Charities
5,846
1.8 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

Behind Eringate-Centennial-West Deane’s civic life grade

With a B−, Eringate-Centennial-West Deane ranks #92 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. Eringate-Centennial-West Deane has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.

B−
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Eringate-Centennial-West Deane’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 Eringate-Centennial-West Deane 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. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.

Volunteering

32.1%

Formal volunteering is measured only for the province: 32.1% of Ontario’s people in 2023, give or take (31.0% to 33.2%), with the provinces between 25.2% and 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

How it compares

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.

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

About 268,633 visits in a typical week

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
The libraries

Eringate-Centennial-West Deane’s public library

Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Eringate-Centennial-West Deane.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Eringate-Centennial-West Deane’s residents and everyone else who walks in.

Questions about the library and civic life in Eringate-Centennial-West Deane

Does Eringate-Centennial-West Deane have a public library?

Yes: Toronto Public Library - Elmbrook Park.

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).