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Libraries · Rosedale-Moore Park

Toronto Public Library - Deer Park and Toronto Public Library - Toronto Reference Library are Rosedale-Moore Park’s two public libraries

Rosedale-Moore Park 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. 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 Ontario
Visits a year
13,968,916
4.5 per person served
Borrowed a year
11,595,454
3.7 per person served
Cardholders
33%
1,031,274 cards
Libraries
2
Charities
5,846
1.8 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

What Rosedale-Moore Park’s civic life grade weighs

With a B−, Rosedale-Moore Park ranks #92 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. Rosedale-Moore Park has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.

B−
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Rosedale-Moore Park’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

5,846 registered charities give a Toronto mailing address

There is no count for Rosedale-Moore Park on its own: the charities are those of all of Toronto. It works out to 1.8 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Ontario town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.

Volunteering

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.

How it compares

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.

Visits per person served 4.5 visits · typical 3.4Higher than 72%
Loans per person served 3.7 items · typical 4Lower than 56%
Cardholders 33% of people served · typical 27%Higher than 68%
Fewer per personMore per person
Who is compared

Town libraries only; regional systems left out.

A year at the library

About 268,633 visits in a typical week

What Toronto Public Library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.

13,968,916
in-person visits
4.5 per person served
11,595,454
items borrowed
3.7 per person served
1,031,274
cardholders
33% of people served
Every day31,768items borrowed
3,110,984 people served
The libraries

2 public libraries in Rosedale-Moore Park

In order of distance from the centre of Rosedale-Moore Park, as the crow flies.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from Rosedale-Moore Park or not, and the statistics have no resident share.

Questions about the library and civic life in Rosedale-Moore Park

Does Rosedale-Moore Park have a public library?

Yes, 2: Toronto Public Library - Deer Park and Toronto Public Library - Toronto Reference Library.

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).