Toronto Public Library - Rexdale is Rexdale-Kipling’s public library
The library figures on this page are Toronto’s: Toronto Public Library serves all 3,110,984 people of the city, Rexdale-Kipling among them. In 2024 it lent 3.7 items for every person it serves. The yearly visit count is an estimate: Ontario libraries count a typical week, then multiply by 52.
B−Civic life#92 of 866 in OntarioRexdale-Kipling’s civic life grade, input by input
With a B−, Rexdale-Kipling ranks #92 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. Rexdale-Kipling 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.
5,846 registered charities give a Toronto mailing address
There is no count for Rexdale-Kipling 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. 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%
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
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
What Toronto Public Library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
Rexdale-Kipling’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Rexdale-Kipling.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from Rexdale-Kipling or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
Questions about the library and civic life in Rexdale-Kipling
Does Rexdale-Kipling have a public library?
Yes: Toronto Public Library - Rexdale.
How busy is Toronto Public Library?
The 2024 totals: 13,968,916 in-person visits, 11,595,454 loans.
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).