Photo: Dillan Payne · CC BY-SA 2.0Toronto Public Library - Northern District is Yonge-Eglinton’s public library
Yonge-Eglinton 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. The yearly visit count is an estimate: Ontario libraries count a typical week, then multiply by 52.
B−Civic life#92 of 866 in OntarioYonge-Eglinton’s civic life grade, input by input
With a B−, Yonge-Eglinton ranks #92 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. Yonge-Eglinton 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.
Toronto mailing addresses hold 5,846 registered charities
There is no count for Yonge-Eglinton 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%
Statistics Canada puts formal volunteering in Ontario at 32.1% in 2023, somewhere between 31.0% and 33.2%, for every town in the province alike; provinces range 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
The year 2024 at Toronto Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Yonge-Eglinton’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Yonge-Eglinton.
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 Yonge-Eglinton.
Questions about the library and civic life in Yonge-Eglinton
Does Yonge-Eglinton have a public library?
Yes: Toronto Public Library - Northern District.
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).