Photo: GTD Aquitaine · Public domainToronto Public Library - Weston is Weston’s public library
Toronto Public Library serves the whole of Toronto, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 3,110,984 people, Weston among them. 3.7 items per person served went out on loan in 2024. Ontario counts visits over one typical week and multiplies by 52, so the yearly figure is an estimate.
B−Civic life#92 of 866 in OntarioWeston’s civic life grade, input by input
Weston gets a B− for civic life, #92 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. 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.
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 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%
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.
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
What Toronto Public Library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
Weston’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Weston.
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 Weston; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in Weston
Does Weston have a public library?
Yes: Toronto Public Library - Weston.
How busy is Toronto Public Library?
For 2024 it reported 11,595,454 loans and 13,968,916 in-person visits.
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).