Photo: Ryan Tir from Vaughan, ON, Canada · CC BY 2.0At 5.7 visits per person served, Vaughan Public Libraries is busier than 87% of Ontario’s town libraries
Crossroads is served by Vaughan Public Libraries, the library of all of Vaughan, so the figures here are the city’s, for 344,930 people. 3.8 items per person served went out on loan in 2024. Ontario counts visits over one typical week and multiplies by 52, so the yearly figure is an estimate.
B−Civic life#272 of 866 in OntarioCrossroads’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Crossroads grades B−: #272 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. A civic life grade combines library visits per resident, registered charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate, and all three exist for Crossroads.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
463 registered charities give a Vaughan mailing address
There is no count for Crossroads 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%
For 2023, the provincial survey estimates that 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally (likely 31.0% to 33.2%); among the ten provinces the rate goes from 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.
A typical week brings about 38,016 visits
What Vaughan Public Libraries counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
Crossroads’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Crossroads.
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 Crossroads isn’t recorded.
Questions about the library and civic life in Crossroads
Does Crossroads have a public library?
Yes: Vaughan Public Libraries - Pleasant Ridge Branch.
How busy is Vaughan Public Libraries?
In 2024 it logged 1,976,832 in-person visits and 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).