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Libraries · L'Amoreaux West

L'Amoreaux West’s public library is Toronto Public Library - Bridlewood

The library figures on this page are Toronto’s: Toronto Public Library serves all 3,110,984 people of the city, L'Amoreaux West among them. 3.7 items per person served went out on loan in 2024. The yearly visit count is an estimate: Ontario libraries count a typical week, then multiply by 52.

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

What L'Amoreaux West’s civic life grade weighs

Civic life in L'Amoreaux West grades B−: #92 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. 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 L'Amoreaux West.

B−
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of L'Amoreaux West’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

Toronto mailing addresses hold 5,846 registered charities

There is no count for L'Amoreaux West 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. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.

Volunteering

32.1%

Volunteering here is a provincial number: 32.1% of people across Ontario in 2023, likely 31.0% to 33.2%, set in a ten-province range of 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

About 268,633 visits in a typical week

The year 2024 at Toronto Public Library, in the library’s own counts.

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

L'Amoreaux West’s public library

In order of distance from the centre of L'Amoreaux West, as the crow flies.

How to read these numbers

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 L'Amoreaux West; the figure can’t tell them apart.

Questions about the library and civic life in L'Amoreaux West

Does L'Amoreaux West have a public library?

Yes: Toronto Public Library - Bridlewood.

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).