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Libraries · Humewood-Cedarvale

Humewood-Cedarvale has no public library of its own; the nearest is Toronto Public Library - Wychwood, 1 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, Humewood-Cedarvale among them. 3.7 items per person served went out on loan in 2024. Ontario counts visits over one typical week and multiplies by 52, so the yearly figure is 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
Charities
5,846
1.8 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

Behind Humewood-Cedarvale’s civic life grade

Civic life in Humewood-Cedarvale grades B−: #92 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Humewood-Cedarvale: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.

B−
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Humewood-Cedarvale’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

5,846 registered charities are based in Toronto, by mailing address

There is no count for Humewood-Cedarvale 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.

Volunteering

32.1%

Across Ontario, 32.1% of people volunteered through an organization in 2023, a provincial estimate with a likely range of 31.0% to 33.2%; the lowest province sits at 25.2% and the highest at 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
Nearest libraries

The closest is 1 km from Humewood-Cedarvale

Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Humewood-Cedarvale.

How to read these numbers

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 Humewood-Cedarvale itself.

Questions about the library and civic life in Humewood-Cedarvale

Does Humewood-Cedarvale have a public library?

None is mapped in Humewood-Cedarvale; the nearest is Toronto Public Library - Wychwood, in Casa Loma.

How busy is Toronto public library?

For 2024 it reported 11,595,454 loans and 13,968,916 in-person visits.

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).