Photo: FreshCorp619 · CC BY-SA 4.0Toronto Public Library - Albion is Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown’s public library
Toronto Public Library serves the whole of Toronto, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 3,110,984 people, Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown 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 OntarioBehind Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown’s civic life grade
Civic life in Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown grades B−: #92 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown: 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 Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown 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%
For 2023, the provincial survey estimates that 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally (likely 31.0% to 33.2%); among the ten provinces the rate goes 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
Per person served, against the 195 town libraries in Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
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.
Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown
Does Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown have a public library?
Yes: Toronto Public Library - Albion.
How busy is Toronto Public Library?
The 2024 totals: 13,968,916 in-person visits, 11,595,454 loans.
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).