Photo: Canmenwalker · CC BY 4.0Vaughan public library logs 5.7 visits per person served, more than 87% of Ontario’s town libraries
Vaughan public library serves the whole of Vaughan, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 344,930 people, Thornhill among them. 3.8 items per person served went out on loan in 2024. The yearly visit count is an estimate: Ontario libraries count a typical week, then multiply by 52.
B−Civic life#272 of 866 in OntarioWhat Thornhill’s civic life grade weighs
Thornhill gets a B− for civic life, #272 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. Thornhill 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.
463 registered charities give a Vaughan mailing address
There is no count for Thornhill on its own: the charities are those of all of Vaughan. That is 1.3 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Ontario town and 1.4 across Canada. 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
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 1.4 km from Thornhill
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Thornhill.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from Thornhill or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
Questions about the library and civic life in Thornhill
Does Thornhill have a public library?
Not in Thornhill: the nearest public library is Bathurst Clark Resource Library, in Beverley Glen.
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).