Photo: deltawhiskybravo · CC BY-SA 3.0Toronto Public Library - St. James Town is North St.James Town’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 St.James Town among them. In 2024 it lent 3.7 items for every person it serves. 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 North St.James Town’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in North St.James Town grades B−: #92 of the 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 North St.James Town.
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 St.James Town 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%
32.1% of people in Ontario did formal volunteering in 2023, a province-wide estimate between 31.0% and 33.2%; across the ten provinces the rate runs 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
Per person served, against the 195 town libraries in Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
A typical week brings about 268,633 visits
The year 2024 at Toronto Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
North St.James Town’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of North St.James Town.
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 North St.James Town; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in North St.James Town
Does North St.James Town have a public library?
Yes: Toronto Public Library - St. James Town.
How busy is Toronto Public Library?
Over 2024: 11,595,454 items out on loan, 13,968,916 visits through the door.
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).