Photo: Dillan Payne · CC BY-SA 2.0Toronto Public Library - Mount Pleasant and Ankara Library are Mount Pleasant East’s two public libraries
The library figures on this page are Toronto’s: Toronto Public Library serves all 3,110,984 people of the city, Mount Pleasant East 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 OntarioWhat Mount Pleasant East’s civic life grade weighs
Mount Pleasant East gets a B− for civic life, #92 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Mount Pleasant East: 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.
5,846 registered charities give a Toronto mailing address
There is no count for Mount Pleasant East 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. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
32.1%
Between 31.0% and 33.2% of people in Ontario volunteered formally in 2023, 32.1% at the estimate’s middle; that is one figure for the province, which ranges from 25.2% to 40.3% nationally.
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
Everything counted at Toronto Public Library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
Mount Pleasant East’s 2 public libraries
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Mount Pleasant East.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from Mount Pleasant East or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
Questions about the library and civic life in Mount Pleasant East
Does Mount Pleasant East have a public library?
Yes, 2: Toronto Public Library - Mount Pleasant and Ankara Library.
How busy is Toronto Public Library?
It counted 13,968,916 in-person visits and lent 11,595,454 items 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).