Photo: Jeff Hitchcock from Seattle, WA, USA · CC BY 2.0Toronto Public Library - Jones and Toronto Public Library - Queen/Saulter are South Riverdale’s two public libraries
Toronto Public Library serves the whole of Toronto, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 3,110,984 people, South Riverdale among them. Loans ran to 3.7 items per person served 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 OntarioWhat South Riverdale’s civic life grade weighs
With a B−, South Riverdale ranks #92 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for South Riverdale: 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 South Riverdale 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%
Formal volunteering is measured only for the province: 32.1% of Ontario’s people in 2023, give or take (31.0% to 33.2%), with the provinces between 25.2% and 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
Everything counted at Toronto Public Library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
South Riverdale’s 2 public libraries
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of South Riverdale.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between South Riverdale’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in South Riverdale
Does South Riverdale have a public library?
Yes, 2: Toronto Public Library - Jones and Toronto Public Library - Queen/Saulter.
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).