Photo: Amakuha · CC BY 4.0The nearest public library to St.Andrew-Windfields is Toronto Public Library - North York Central Library, 2.5 km away
The library figures on this page are Toronto’s: Toronto public library serves all 3,110,984 people of the city, St.Andrew-Windfields 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 St.Andrew-Windfields’s civic life grade
St.Andrew-Windfields gets a B− for civic life, #92 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. A civic life grade combines library visits per resident, registered charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate, and all three exist for St.Andrew-Windfields.
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 St.Andrew-Windfields 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. 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%
Across Ontario, 32.1% of people volunteered through an organization in 2023, a provincial estimate with a likely range of 31.0% to 33.2%; the lowest province sits at 25.2% and the highest at 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
Everything counted at Toronto public library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
The closest is 2.5 km from St.Andrew-Windfields
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of St.Andrew-Windfields.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Tourists, commuters and neighbours all add to the visits, and nobody records which of them live in St.Andrew-Windfields.
Questions about the library and civic life in St.Andrew-Windfields
Does St.Andrew-Windfields have a public library?
None is mapped in St.Andrew-Windfields; the nearest is Toronto Public Library - North York Central Library, in Willowdale West.
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).