Photo: Dillan Payne · CC BY-SA 4.0No public library stands in Morningside Heights: the closest, Toronto Public Library - Malvern, is 1.6 km away
The library figures on this page are Toronto’s: Toronto public library serves all 3,110,984 people of the city, Morningside Heights among them. 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 OntarioWhat Morningside Heights’s civic life grade weighs
Morningside Heights gets a B− for civic life, #92 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Morningside Heights: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial 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 Morningside Heights on its own: the charities are those of all of Toronto. It works out to 1.8 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Ontario town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. 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%
In 2023, 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally: one estimate for the whole province, likely between 31.0% and 33.2%, in a range of 25.2% to 40.3% across the ten provinces.
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
Everything counted at Toronto public library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
The closest is 1.6 km from Morningside Heights
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Morningside Heights.
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 Morningside Heights itself.
Questions about the library and civic life in Morningside Heights
Does Morningside Heights have a public library?
None is mapped in Morningside Heights; the nearest is Toronto Public Library - Malvern, in Malvern East.
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).