Photo: Dillan Payne · CC BY-SA 4.0Vaughan public library logs 5.7 visits per person served, more than 87% of Ontario’s town libraries
Vaughan Metropolitan Centre is served by Vaughan public library, the library of all of Vaughan, so the figures here are the city’s, for 344,930 people. Its borrowers took out 3.8 items per person served 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 Vaughan Metropolitan Centre’s civic life grade weighs
Vaughan Metropolitan Centre gets a B− for civic life, #272 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. Vaughan Metropolitan Centre 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 are based in Vaughan, by mailing address
There is no count for Vaughan Metropolitan Centre on its own: the charities are those of all of Vaughan. It works out to 1.3 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Ontario town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. 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%
The 2023 survey gives Ontario one volunteering rate for all its towns, 32.1% (between 31.0% and 33.2%), while provinces run from 25.2% at the low end 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 0.8 km from Vaughan Metropolitan Centre
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Vaughan Metropolitan Centre.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from Vaughan Metropolitan Centre or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
Questions about the library and civic life in Vaughan Metropolitan Centre
Does Vaughan Metropolitan Centre have a public library?
There isn’t one in Vaughan Metropolitan Centre; people there use libraries such as Ansley Grove Library, in Pine Grove.
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).