Photo: Utcursch · CC BY-SA 3.0Markland Wood has no public library of its own; the nearest is Toronto Public Library - Eatonville, 1.7 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, Markland Wood among them. 3.7 items per person served went out on loan in 2024. 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 OntarioBehind Markland Wood’s civic life grade
Civic life in Markland Wood 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 Markland Wood.
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 Markland Wood 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.
32.1%
No town-level count exists, so the page uses Ontario as a whole: 32.1% volunteered formally in 2023, between 31.0% and 33.2%, while the provinces span 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
What Toronto public library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
The closest is 1.7 km from Markland Wood
In order of distance from the centre of Markland Wood, as the crow flies.
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 Markland Wood itself.
Questions about the library and civic life in Markland Wood
Does Markland Wood have a public library?
Not in Markland Wood: the nearest public library is Toronto Public Library - Eatonville, in Islington.
How busy is Toronto public library?
13,968,916 in-person visits and 11,595,454 items borrowed in 2024.
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).