Vaughan Public Libraries 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 Libraries serves all 344,930 people of the city, Peace Village among them. Its borrowers took out 3.8 items per person served 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 Peace Village’s civic life grade
Peace Village gets a B− for civic life, #272 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. Peace Village 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.
Vaughan mailing addresses hold 463 registered charities
There is no count for Peace Village 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. 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%
Statistics Canada puts formal volunteering in Ontario at 32.1% in 2023, somewhere between 31.0% and 33.2%, for every town in the province alike; provinces range 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
Each figure is per person served, set against 195 town libraries in Ontario’s statistics for 2024.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 38,016 visits in a typical week
What Vaughan Public Libraries counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
Peace Village’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Peace Village.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A library’s visits include people from neighbouring towns and visitors; the statistics don’t say how many come from Peace Village itself.
Questions about the library and civic life in Peace Village
Does Peace Village have a public library?
Yes: Vaughan Public Libraries.
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).