Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainNewtonbrook East has no public library of its own; the nearest is Toronto Public Library - North York Central Library, 2.6 km away
The library figures on this page are Toronto’s: Toronto public library serves all 3,110,984 people of the city, Newtonbrook East among them. 3.7 items per person served went out on loan 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 Newtonbrook East’s civic life grade
Civic life in Newtonbrook East grades B−: #92 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Newtonbrook 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 are based in Toronto, by mailing address
There is no count for Newtonbrook East 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. 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%
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.
The closest is 2.6 km from Newtonbrook East
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Newtonbrook East.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A busy library may owe some of its visits to people who live outside Newtonbrook East; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in Newtonbrook East
Does Newtonbrook East have a public library?
None is mapped in Newtonbrook East; the nearest is Toronto Public Library - North York Central Library, in Willowdale West.
How busy is Toronto public library?
13,968,916 in-person visits and 11,595,454 items borrowed 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).