Photo: David Baron from San Francisco, California, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0The nearest public library to Wellington Place is Toronto Public Library - Fort York, 0.9 km away
The library figures on this page are Toronto’s: Toronto public library serves all 3,110,984 people of the city, Wellington Place among them. Loans ran to 3.7 items per person served in 2024. The yearly visit count is an estimate: Ontario libraries count a typical week, then multiply by 52.
B−Civic life#92 of 866 in OntarioBehind Wellington Place’s civic life grade
Civic life in Wellington Place grades B−: #92 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. Wellington Place has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.
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 Wellington Place 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. 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.
A typical week brings about 268,633 visits
What Toronto public library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
The closest is 0.9 km from Wellington Place
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Wellington Place.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Wellington Place’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Wellington Place
Does Wellington Place have a public library?
No, but Toronto Public Library - Fort York in Harbourfront-CityPlace is the nearest public library to Wellington Place.
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).