Photo: Dillan Payne · CC BY-SA 4.0Leaside-Bennington has one public library, Toronto Public Library - Leaside
Leaside-Bennington 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. 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 OntarioWhat Leaside-Bennington’s civic life grade weighs
Leaside-Bennington gets a B− for civic life, #92 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. Leaside-Bennington has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Toronto mailing addresses hold 5,846 registered charities
There is no count for Leaside-Bennington 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%
The 2023 survey gives Ontario one volunteering rate for all its towns, 32.1% (between 31.0% and 33.2%), while provinces run from 25.2% at the low end to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on 2 of 3 measures
Each figure is per person served, set against 195 town libraries in Ontario’s statistics for 2024.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
A typical week brings about 268,633 visits
What Toronto Public Library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
Leaside-Bennington’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Leaside-Bennington.
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 Leaside-Bennington; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in Leaside-Bennington
Does Leaside-Bennington have a public library?
Yes: Toronto Public Library - Leaside.
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).