Photo: Canmenwalker · CC BY 4.0No public library stands in Newtonbrook West: the closest, Toronto Public Library - Centennial, is 1.9 km away
Newtonbrook West is served by Toronto public library, the library of all of Toronto, so the figures here are the city’s, for 3,110,984 people. Its borrowers took out 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 Newtonbrook West’s civic life grade
With a B−, Newtonbrook West ranks #92 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. Newtonbrook West has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s 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 Newtonbrook West 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. 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%
The whole province shares one estimate: 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally in 2023 (between 31.0% and 33.2%), where the ten provinces run 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.
About 268,633 visits in a typical week
The year 2024 at Toronto public library, in the library’s own counts.
The nearest library is 1.9 km from Newtonbrook West
In order of distance from the centre of Newtonbrook West, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from Newtonbrook West or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
Questions about the library and civic life in Newtonbrook West
Does Newtonbrook West have a public library?
Newtonbrook West has none mapped; the closest public library is Toronto Public Library - Centennial, in Westminster-Branson.
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).