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Libraries · Stonegate-Queensway

Stonegate-Queensway has one public library, Toronto Public Library - Humber Bay

Toronto Public Library serves the whole of Toronto, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 3,110,984 people, Stonegate-Queensway among them. Its borrowers took out 3.7 items per person served 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
1
Charities
5,846
1.8 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

Stonegate-Queensway’s civic life grade, input by input

With a B−, Stonegate-Queensway ranks #92 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Stonegate-Queensway: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.

B−
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Stonegate-Queensway’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 Stonegate-Queensway 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.

Volunteering

32.1%

One figure covers all of Ontario: in 2023, 32.1% of its people gave time to an organization (between 31.0% and 33.2%), against a provincial range of 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

A typical week brings about 268,633 visits

The year 2024 at Toronto Public Library, in the library’s own counts.

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

Stonegate-Queensway’s public library

Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Stonegate-Queensway.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Visits count everyone. Visitors and people from nearby towns are in the count too; how many live in Stonegate-Queensway isn’t recorded.

Questions about the library and civic life in Stonegate-Queensway

Does Stonegate-Queensway have a public library?

Yes: Toronto Public Library - Humber Bay.

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).