Photo: SimonP · CC BY-SA 3.0West Humber-Clairville has two public libraries, Toronto Public Library - Humberwood and Toronto Public Library - Northern Elms
The library figures on this page are Toronto’s: Toronto Public Library serves all 3,110,984 people of the city, West Humber-Clairville among them. 3.7 items per person served went out on loan 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 OntarioWhat West Humber-Clairville’s civic life grade weighs
With a B−, West Humber-Clairville ranks #92 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. West Humber-Clairville 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.
5,846 registered charities give a Toronto mailing address
There is no count for West Humber-Clairville 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. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.
32.1%
Formal volunteering is measured only for the province: 32.1% of Ontario’s people in 2023, give or take (31.0% to 33.2%), with the provinces between 25.2% and 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
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.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
A typical week brings about 268,633 visits
Everything counted at Toronto Public Library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
West Humber-Clairville’s 2 public libraries
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of West Humber-Clairville.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A busy library may owe some of its visits to people who live outside West Humber-Clairville; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in West Humber-Clairville
Does West Humber-Clairville have a public library?
Yes, 2: Toronto Public Library - Humberwood and Toronto Public Library - Northern Elms.
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).