Photo: Oaktree b · CC BY-SA 4.0Willowdale West’s public library is Toronto Public Library - North York Central Library
Willowdale West 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. 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 OntarioBehind Willowdale West’s civic life grade
Civic life in Willowdale West grades B−: #92 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. Willowdale West 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 Willowdale West 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%
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
Measured per person served against the 195 town libraries of Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
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.
Willowdale West’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Willowdale West.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Visitors and people from nearby towns are in the count too; how many live in Willowdale West isn’t recorded.
Questions about the library and civic life in Willowdale West
Does Willowdale West have a public library?
Yes: Toronto Public Library - North York Central Library.
How busy is Toronto Public Library?
In 2024 it logged 13,968,916 in-person visits and 11,595,454 loans.
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).