Photo: Michael Gil from Calgary, AB, Canada · CC BY 2.0Toronto Public Library - Eatonville is Islington’s public library
The library figures on this page are Toronto’s: Toronto Public Library serves all 3,110,984 people of the city, Islington 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 OntarioIslington’s civic life grade, input by input
Islington gets a B− for civic life, #92 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Islington: 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 Islington 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. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
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.
About 268,633 visits in a typical week
What Toronto Public Library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
Islington’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Islington.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Visitors and people from nearby towns are in the count too; how many live in Islington isn’t recorded.
Questions about the library and civic life in Islington
Does Islington have a public library?
Yes: Toronto Public Library - Eatonville.
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).