More visits per person served than 87% of Ontario’s town libraries: Vaughan public library counts 5.7
Dufferin Hill is served by Vaughan public library, the library of all of Vaughan, so the figures here are the city’s, for 344,930 people. In 2024 it lent 3.8 items for every person it serves. 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 OntarioDufferin Hill’s civic life grade, input by input
Dufferin Hill gets a B− for civic life, #272 of 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 Dufferin Hill.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Vaughan mailing addresses hold 463 registered charities
There is no count for Dufferin Hill on its own: the charities are those of all of Vaughan. It works out to 1.3 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%
Between 31.0% and 33.2% of people in Ontario volunteered formally in 2023, 32.1% at the estimate’s middle; that is one figure for the province, which ranges from 25.2% to 40.3% nationally.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on 1 of 3 measures
Each figure is per person served, set against 195 town libraries in Ontario’s statistics for 2024.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
A typical week brings about 38,016 visits
What Vaughan public library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
The nearest library is 1 km from Dufferin Hill
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Dufferin Hill.
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 Dufferin Hill isn’t recorded.
Questions about the library and civic life in Dufferin Hill
Does Dufferin Hill have a public library?
Not within Dufferin Hill itself: the closest is Vaughan Public Libraries - Pleasant Ridge Branch, in Crossroads.
How busy is Vaughan public library?
People made 1,976,832 visits in person and borrowed 1,302,135 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).