Photo: booledozer · CC BY-SA 2.0Greenwood-Coxwell has one public library, Toronto Public Library - Gerrard/Ashdale
The library figures on this page are Toronto’s: Toronto Public Library serves all 3,110,984 people of the city, Greenwood-Coxwell among them. 3.7 items per person served went out on loan 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 OntarioBehind Greenwood-Coxwell’s civic life grade
Greenwood-Coxwell gets a B− for civic life, #92 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Greenwood-Coxwell: 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 Greenwood-Coxwell 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. 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%
In 2023, 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally: one estimate for the whole province, likely between 31.0% and 33.2%, in a range of 25.2% to 40.3% across the ten provinces.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on 2 of 3 measures
Each figure is per person served, set against 195 town libraries in Ontario’s statistics for 2024.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 268,633 visits in a typical week
The year 2024 at Toronto Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Greenwood-Coxwell’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Greenwood-Coxwell.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A busy library may owe some of its visits to people who live outside Greenwood-Coxwell; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in Greenwood-Coxwell
Does Greenwood-Coxwell have a public library?
Yes: Toronto Public Library - Gerrard/Ashdale.
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).