Photo: Danielle Scott · CC BY-SA 2.0New Toronto has one public library, Toronto Public Library - New Toronto
Toronto Public Library serves the whole of Toronto, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 3,110,984 people, New Toronto among them. In 2024 it lent 3.7 items for every person it serves. 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 New Toronto’s civic life grade weighs
New Toronto gets a B− for civic life, #92 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. 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 New Toronto.
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 New Toronto 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. The CRA files each charity under its mailing address, so a service town collects its region’s charities and a suburb or rural municipality few.
32.1%
The 2023 survey gives Ontario one volunteering rate for all its towns, 32.1% (between 31.0% and 33.2%), while provinces run from 25.2% at the low end 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.
About 268,633 visits in a typical week
The year 2024 at Toronto Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
New Toronto’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of New Toronto.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between New Toronto’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in New Toronto
Does New Toronto have a public library?
Yes: Toronto Public Library - New Toronto.
How busy is Toronto Public Library?
For 2024 it reported 11,595,454 loans and 13,968,916 in-person visits.
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).