Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainVaughan public library draws 5.7 visits per person served, ahead of 87% of Ontario’s town libraries
The library figures on this page are Vaughan’s: Vaughan public library serves all 344,930 people of the city, Hope among them. 3.8 items per person served went out on loan in 2024. Visits here are a typical week’s count times 52, Ontario’s method, so read them as an estimate.
B−Civic life#272 of 866 in OntarioBehind Hope’s civic life grade
Hope 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 Hope.
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 Hope 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. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
32.1%
32.1% of people in Ontario did formal volunteering in 2023, a province-wide estimate between 31.0% and 33.2%; across the ten provinces the rate runs 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
Per person served, against the 195 town libraries in Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 38,016 visits in a typical week
The year 2024 at Vaughan public library, in the library’s own counts.
The closest is 2.7 km from Hope
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Hope.
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 Hope isn’t recorded.
Questions about the library and civic life in Hope
Does Hope have a public library?
None is mapped in Hope; the nearest is Vaughan Public Libraries - Maple Branch, in Maple.
How busy is Vaughan public library?
It counted 1,976,832 in-person visits and lent 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).