Photo: OldYorkGuy · CC BY-SA 3.0Moss Park’s public library is Toronto Public Library - Parliament Street
Toronto Public Library serves the whole of Toronto, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 3,110,984 people, Moss Park among them. Its borrowers took out 3.7 items per person served 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 OntarioBehind Moss Park’s civic life grade
Civic life in Moss Park grades B−: #92 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. Moss Park 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.
5,846 registered charities are based in Toronto, by mailing address
There is no count for Moss Park 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.
A typical week brings about 268,633 visits
The year 2024 at Toronto Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Moss Park’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Moss Park, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Visitors and people from nearby towns are in the count too; how many live in Moss Park isn’t recorded.
Questions about the library and civic life in Moss Park
Does Moss Park have a public library?
Yes: Toronto Public Library - Parliament Street.
How busy is Toronto Public Library?
Over 2024: 11,595,454 items out on loan, 13,968,916 visits through the door.
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).