Photo: Dillan Payne · CC BY-SA 4.0The nearest public library to Yonge-St.Clair is Toronto Public Library - Deer Park, 0.6 km away
Toronto public library serves the whole of Toronto, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 3,110,984 people, Yonge-St.Clair among them. 3.7 items per person served went out on loan in 2024. 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 Yonge-St.Clair’s civic life grade
Yonge-St.Clair gets a B− for civic life, #92 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Yonge-St.Clair: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial 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 Yonge-St.Clair 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%
One figure covers all of Ontario: in 2023, 32.1% of its people gave time to an organization (between 31.0% and 33.2%), against a provincial range of 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.
A typical week brings about 268,633 visits
What Toronto public library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
The closest is 0.6 km from Yonge-St.Clair
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Yonge-St.Clair.
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 Yonge-St.Clair; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in Yonge-St.Clair
Does Yonge-St.Clair have a public library?
None is mapped in Yonge-St.Clair; the nearest is Toronto Public Library - Deer Park, in Rosedale-Moore Park.
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).