Vaughan public library draws 5.7 visits per person served, ahead of 87% of Ontario’s town libraries
Woodbridge Meadows is served by Vaughan public library, the library of all of Vaughan, so the figures here are the city’s, for 344,930 people. 3.8 items per person served went out on loan 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 Woodbridge Meadows’s civic life grade weighs
With a B−, Woodbridge Meadows ranks #272 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Woodbridge Meadows: 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 Woodbridge Meadows 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%
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.
A typical week brings about 38,016 visits
The year 2024 at Vaughan public library, in the library’s own counts.
The closest is 2.8 km from Woodbridge Meadows
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Woodbridge Meadows.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A library’s visits include people from neighbouring towns and visitors; the statistics don’t say how many come from Woodbridge Meadows itself.
Questions about the library and civic life in Woodbridge Meadows
Does Woodbridge Meadows have a public library?
Not in Woodbridge Meadows: the nearest public library is Pierre Berton Resource Library, in Pine Grove.
How busy is Vaughan public library?
In 2024 it logged 1,976,832 in-person visits and 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).