Photo: Commodore Gandalf Cunningham · CC BY 2.0More visits per person served than 87% of Ontario’s town libraries: Vaughan Public Libraries counts 5.7
Purpleville is served by Vaughan Public Libraries, 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 OntarioWhat Purpleville’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Purpleville grades B−: #272 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. Purpleville 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 Purpleville 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%
The whole province shares one estimate: 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally in 2023 (between 31.0% and 33.2%), where the ten provinces run 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.
Purpleville’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Purpleville, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Purpleville’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Purpleville
Does Purpleville have a public library?
Yes: Vaughan Public Libraries - Kleinburg Branch.
How busy is Vaughan Public Libraries?
Over 2024: 1,302,135 items out on loan, 1,976,832 visits through the door.
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).