Photo: Dillan Payne · CC BY-SA 4.0More visits per person served than 87% of Ontario’s town libraries: Vaughan Public Libraries counts 5.7
Beverley Glen is served by Vaughan Public Libraries, the library of all of Vaughan, so the figures here are the city’s, for 344,930 people. Its borrowers took out 3.8 items per person served 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#272 of 866 in OntarioWhat Beverley Glen’s civic life grade weighs
With a B−, Beverley Glen ranks #272 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. Beverley Glen 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.
463 registered charities are based in Vaughan, by mailing address
There is no count for Beverley Glen on its own: the charities are those of all of Vaughan. That is 1.3 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Ontario town and 1.4 across Canada. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.
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 1 of 3 measures
Measured per person served against the 195 town libraries of Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 38,016 visits in a typical week
Everything counted at Vaughan Public Libraries in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
Beverley Glen’s 2 public libraries
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Beverley Glen.
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 Beverley Glen; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in Beverley Glen
Does Beverley Glen have a public library?
Yes, 2: Bathurst Clark Resource Library and Vaughan Public Libraries - Dufferin Clark Branch.
How busy is Vaughan Public Libraries?
The 2024 totals: 1,976,832 in-person visits, 1,302,135 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).