Photo: Michael Gil from Calgary, AB, Canada · CC BY 2.0Weston-Pelham Park’s public library is Toronto Public Library - St. Clair/Silverthorn
Toronto Public Library serves the whole of Toronto, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 3,110,984 people, Weston-Pelham Park among them. In 2024 it lent 3.7 items for every person it serves. 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 OntarioBehind Weston-Pelham Park’s civic life grade
With a B−, Weston-Pelham Park ranks #92 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. A civic life grade combines library visits per resident, registered charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate, and all three exist for Weston-Pelham Park.
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 Weston-Pelham Park 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. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
32.1%
Between 31.0% and 33.2% of people in Ontario volunteered formally in 2023, 32.1% at the estimate’s middle; that is one figure for the province, which ranges from 25.2% to 40.3% nationally.
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.
About 268,633 visits in a typical week
Everything counted at Toronto Public Library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
Weston-Pelham Park’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Weston-Pelham Park.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Weston-Pelham Park’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Weston-Pelham Park
Does Weston-Pelham Park have a public library?
Yes: Toronto Public Library - St. Clair/Silverthorn.
How busy is Toronto Public Library?
13,968,916 in-person visits and 11,595,454 items borrowed in 2024.
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).