Photo: Dillan Payne · CC BY-SA 4.0Toronto Public Library - Riverdale is North Riverdale’s public library
The library figures on this page are Toronto’s: Toronto Public Library serves all 3,110,984 people of the city, North Riverdale among them. Loans ran to 3.7 items per person served in 2024. 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 North Riverdale’s civic life grade weighs
With a B−, North Riverdale ranks #92 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. 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 North Riverdale.
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 North Riverdale 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. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
32.1%
One figure covers all of Ontario: in 2023, 32.1% of its people gave time to an organization (between 31.0% and 33.2%), against a provincial range of 25.2% 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.
North Riverdale’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of North Riverdale.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from North Riverdale or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
Questions about the library and civic life in North Riverdale
Does North Riverdale have a public library?
Yes: Toronto Public Library - Riverdale.
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).