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Libraries · Junction-Wallace Emerson

Junction-Wallace Emerson’s public library is Junction Triangle

Junction-Wallace Emerson 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. 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 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
Libraries
1
Charities
5,846
1.8 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

Behind Junction-Wallace Emerson’s civic life grade

Junction-Wallace Emerson gets a B− for civic life, #92 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Junction-Wallace Emerson: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.

B−
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Junction-Wallace Emerson’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

5,846 registered charities give a Toronto mailing address

There is no count for Junction-Wallace Emerson 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. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.

Volunteering

32.1%

The whole province shares one estimate: 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally in 2023 (between 31.0% and 33.2%), where the ten provinces run from 25.2% to 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

A typical week brings about 268,633 visits

Everything counted at Toronto Public Library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.

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
The libraries

Junction-Wallace Emerson’s public library

In order of distance from the centre of Junction-Wallace Emerson, as the crow flies.

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 Junction-Wallace Emerson itself.

Questions about the library and civic life in Junction-Wallace Emerson

Does Junction-Wallace Emerson have a public library?

Yes: Junction Triangle.

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).