Photo: Andrepoiy · CC BY-SA 4.0Vaughan public library draws 5.7 visits per person served, ahead of 87% of Ontario’s town libraries
Upper Thornhill Estates is served by Vaughan public library, the library of all of Vaughan, so the figures here are the city’s, for 344,930 people. Loans ran to 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 OntarioWhat Upper Thornhill Estates’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Upper Thornhill Estates grades B−: #272 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. Upper Thornhill Estates 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 Upper Thornhill Estates 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. 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%
Across Ontario, 32.1% of people volunteered through an organization in 2023, a provincial estimate with a likely range of 31.0% to 33.2%; the lowest province sits at 25.2% and the highest at 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.
About 38,016 visits in a typical week
Everything counted at Vaughan public library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
The closest is 1.3 km from Upper Thornhill Estates
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Upper Thornhill Estates.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from Upper Thornhill Estates or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
Questions about the library and civic life in Upper Thornhill Estates
Does Upper Thornhill Estates have a public library?
No, but Carrville Library in The Valleys of Thornhill is the nearest public library to Upper Thornhill Estates.
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).