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Libraries · Tam O'Shanter-Sullivan

Toronto Public Library - Agincourt is Tam O'Shanter-Sullivan’s public library

Tam O'Shanter-Sullivan 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
1
Charities
5,846
1.8 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

Tam O'Shanter-Sullivan’s civic life grade, input by input

With a B−, Tam O'Shanter-Sullivan ranks #92 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. Tam O'Shanter-Sullivan 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 Tam O'Shanter-Sullivan’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

Toronto mailing addresses hold 5,846 registered charities

There is no count for Tam O'Shanter-Sullivan 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.

Volunteering

32.1%

For 2023, the provincial survey estimates that 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally (likely 31.0% to 33.2%); among the ten provinces the rate goes 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

Each figure is per person served, set against 195 town libraries in Ontario’s statistics for 2024.

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

Tam O'Shanter-Sullivan’s public library

Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Tam O'Shanter-Sullivan.

How to read these numbers

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 Tam O'Shanter-Sullivan.

Questions about the library and civic life in Tam O'Shanter-Sullivan

Does Tam O'Shanter-Sullivan have a public library?

Yes: Toronto Public Library - Agincourt.

How busy is Toronto Public Library?

Over 2024: 11,595,454 items out on loan, 13,968,916 visits through the door.

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).