Photo: SimonP · CC BY-SA 3.0Hillcrest Village has one public library, Toronto Public Library - Hillcrest
Hillcrest Village is served by Toronto Public Library, the library of all of Toronto, so the figures here are the city’s, for 3,110,984 people. In 2024 it lent 3.7 items for every person it serves. 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 OntarioWhat Hillcrest Village’s civic life grade weighs
With a B−, Hillcrest Village ranks #92 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. 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 Hillcrest Village.
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 Hillcrest Village 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.
32.1%
32.1% of people in Ontario did formal volunteering in 2023, a province-wide estimate between 31.0% and 33.2%; across the ten provinces the rate runs 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
Everything counted at Toronto Public Library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
Hillcrest Village’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Hillcrest Village.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from Hillcrest Village or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
Questions about the library and civic life in Hillcrest Village
Does Hillcrest Village have a public library?
Yes: Toronto Public Library - Hillcrest.
How busy is Toronto Public Library?
Its 2024 report counts 13,968,916 visits in person and 11,595,454 items lent.
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).