Photo: Diego Torres Silvestre from Sao Paulo, Brazil · CC BY 2.0The nearest public library to Rockcliffe-Smythe is Toronto Public Library - Mount Dennis, 1.1 km away
Rockcliffe-Smythe 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. 3.7 items per person served went out on loan 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 OntarioBehind Rockcliffe-Smythe’s civic life grade
Civic life in Rockcliffe-Smythe grades B−: #92 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Rockcliffe-Smythe: 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.
Toronto mailing addresses hold 5,846 registered charities
There is no count for Rockcliffe-Smythe 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%
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
Per person served, against the 195 town libraries in 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.
The closest is 1.1 km from Rockcliffe-Smythe
In order of distance from the centre of Rockcliffe-Smythe, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Rockcliffe-Smythe’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Rockcliffe-Smythe
Does Rockcliffe-Smythe have a public library?
Not in Rockcliffe-Smythe: the nearest public library is Toronto Public Library - Mount Dennis, in Mount Dennis.
How busy is Toronto public library?
It counted 13,968,916 in-person visits and lent 11,595,454 items 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).