Photo: Canmenwalker · CC BY 4.0Toronto Public Library - Morningside is West Hill’s public library
The library figures on this page are Toronto’s: Toronto Public Library serves all 3,110,984 people of the city, West Hill among them. Its borrowers took out 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 OntarioWest Hill’s civic life grade, input by input
With a B−, West Hill ranks #92 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for West Hill: 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 give a Toronto mailing address
There is no count for West Hill 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%
Statistics Canada puts formal volunteering in Ontario at 32.1% in 2023, somewhere between 31.0% and 33.2%, for every town in the province alike; provinces range from 25.2% to 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.
West Hill’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of West Hill.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from West Hill or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
Questions about the library and civic life in West Hill
Does West Hill have a public library?
Yes: Toronto Public Library - Morningside.
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).