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Libraries · Wexford/Maryvale

Wexford/Maryvale has one public library, Toronto Public Library - Maryvale

Wexford/Maryvale is served by Toronto Public Library, the library of all of Toronto, so the figures here are the city’s, for 3,110,984 people. 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 Ontario
Visits a year
13,968,916
4.5 per person served
Borrowed a year
11,595,454
3.7 per person served
Cardholders
33%
1,031,274 cards
Libraries
1
Charities
5,846
1.8 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

What Wexford/Maryvale’s civic life grade weighs

Civic life in Wexford/Maryvale grades B−: #92 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. Wexford/Maryvale has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.

B−
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Wexford/Maryvale’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

5,846 registered charities are based in Toronto, by mailing address

There is no count for Wexford/Maryvale 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.

Volunteering

32.1%

Volunteering here is a provincial number: 32.1% of people across Ontario in 2023, likely 31.0% to 33.2%, set in a ten-province range of 25.2% to 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

How it compares

Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on 2 of 3 measures

Measured per person served against the 195 town libraries of Ontario’s 2024 statistics.

Visits per person served 4.5 visits · typical 3.4Higher than 72%
Loans per person served 3.7 items · typical 4Lower than 56%
Cardholders 33% of people served · typical 27%Higher than 68%
Fewer per personMore per person
Who is compared

Town libraries only; regional systems left out.

A year at the library

A typical week brings about 268,633 visits

Everything counted at Toronto Public Library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.

13,968,916
in-person visits
4.5 per person served
11,595,454
items borrowed
3.7 per person served
1,031,274
cardholders
33% of people served
Every day31,768items borrowed
3,110,984 people served
The libraries

Wexford/Maryvale’s public library

In order of distance from the centre of Wexford/Maryvale, as the crow flies.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Visits count everyone. Tourists, commuters and neighbours all add to the visits, and nobody records which of them live in Wexford/Maryvale.

Questions about the library and civic life in Wexford/Maryvale

Does Wexford/Maryvale have a public library?

Yes: Toronto Public Library - Maryvale.

How busy is Toronto Public Library?

People made 13,968,916 visits in person and borrowed 11,595,454 items 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).