Photo: Canmenwalker · CC BY 4.0Mount Dennis has one public library, Toronto Public Library - Mount Dennis
Toronto Public Library serves the whole of Toronto, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 3,110,984 people, Mount Dennis among them. Loans ran to 3.7 items per person served in 2024. The yearly visit count is an estimate: Ontario libraries count a typical week, then multiply by 52.
B−Civic life#92 of 866 in OntarioBehind Mount Dennis’s civic life grade
With a B−, Mount Dennis 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 Mount Dennis.
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 Mount Dennis 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. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
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
Measured per person served against the 195 town libraries of Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
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.
Mount Dennis’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Mount Dennis.
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 Mount Dennis itself.
Questions about the library and civic life in Mount Dennis
Does Mount Dennis have a public library?
Yes: Toronto Public Library - Mount Dennis.
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).