Maple Leaf has no public library of its own; the nearest is Toronto Public Library - Amesbury Park, 1.2 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, Maple Leaf among them. In 2024 it lent 3.7 items for every person it serves. 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 OntarioMaple Leaf’s civic life grade, input by input
With a B−, Maple Leaf ranks #92 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. 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 Maple Leaf.
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 Maple Leaf 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. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.
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
Each figure is per person served, set against 195 town libraries in Ontario’s statistics for 2024.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 268,633 visits in a typical week
Everything counted at Toronto public library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
The nearest library is 1.2 km from Maple Leaf
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Maple Leaf.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Tourists, commuters and neighbours all add to the visits, and nobody records which of them live in Maple Leaf.
Questions about the library and civic life in Maple Leaf
Does Maple Leaf have a public library?
Not within Maple Leaf itself: the closest is Toronto Public Library - Amesbury Park, in Brookhaven-Amesbury.
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).