Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainAt 5.7 visits per person served, Vaughan Public Libraries is busier than 87% of Ontario’s town libraries
Pine Grove 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 OntarioPine Grove’s civic life grade, input by input
Pine Grove gets a B− for civic life, #272 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Pine Grove: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial 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 Pine Grove on its own: the charities are those of all of Vaughan. Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.3; the median is 1.4 for Ontario towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. 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%
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
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.
2 public libraries in Pine Grove
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Pine Grove.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Pine Grove’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Pine Grove
Does Pine Grove have a public library?
Yes, 2: Ansley Grove Library and Pierre Berton Resource Library.
How busy is Vaughan Public Libraries?
Its 2024 report counts 1,976,832 visits in person and 1,302,135 items lent.
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).