Vaughan 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, Thornhill Woods among them. In 2024 it lent 3.8 items for every person it serves. 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 OntarioThornhill Woods’s civic life grade, input by input
With a B−, Thornhill Woods ranks #272 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Thornhill Woods: 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 Thornhill Woods 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
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 nearest library is 1 km from Thornhill Woods
In order of distance from the centre of Thornhill Woods, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A busy library may owe some of its visits to people who live outside Thornhill Woods; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in Thornhill Woods
Does Thornhill Woods have a public library?
Not within Thornhill Woods itself: the closest is Vaughan Public Libraries - Pleasant Ridge Branch, in Crossroads.
How busy is Vaughan public library?
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).