Photo: Canmenwalker · CC BY 4.0The nearest public library to North Toronto is Toronto Public Library - Northern District, 0.5 km away
The library figures on this page are Toronto’s: Toronto public library serves all 3,110,984 people of the city, North Toronto among them. 3.7 items per person served went out on loan in 2024. Like every Ontario library, it reports one typical week of visits, and the year is that week times 52: an estimate.
B−Civic life#92 of 866 in OntarioBehind North Toronto’s civic life grade
With a B−, North Toronto ranks #92 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for North Toronto: 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 North 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. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
32.1%
Volunteering here is a provincial number: 32.1% of people across Ontario in 2023, likely 31.0% to 33.2%, set in a ten-province 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
Measured per person served against the 195 town libraries of Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
A typical week brings about 268,633 visits
Everything counted at Toronto public library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
The closest is 0.5 km from North Toronto
In order of distance from the centre of North Toronto, as the crow flies.
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 Toronto; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in North Toronto
Does North Toronto have a public library?
Not in North Toronto: the nearest public library is Toronto Public Library - Northern District, in Yonge-Eglinton.
How busy is Toronto public library?
Its 2024 report counts 13,968,916 visits in person and 11,595,454 items lent.
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).