Glenfield-Jane Heights has two public libraries, Toronto Public Library - Jane/Sheppard and Toronto Public Library - York Woods
Toronto Public Library serves the whole of Toronto, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 3,110,984 people, Glenfield-Jane Heights 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 OntarioGlenfield-Jane Heights’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Glenfield-Jane Heights grades B−: #92 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Glenfield-Jane Heights: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial 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 Glenfield-Jane Heights 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%
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.
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.
A typical week brings about 268,633 visits
Everything counted at Toronto Public Library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
Glenfield-Jane Heights’s 2 public libraries
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Glenfield-Jane Heights.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A library’s visits include people from neighbouring towns and visitors; the statistics don’t say how many come from Glenfield-Jane Heights itself.
Questions about the library and civic life in Glenfield-Jane Heights
Does Glenfield-Jane Heights have a public library?
Yes, 2: Toronto Public Library - Jane/Sheppard and Toronto Public Library - York Woods.
How busy is Toronto Public Library?
Over 2024: 11,595,454 items out on loan, 13,968,916 visits through the door.
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).