The nearest public library to M-Section (bramalea) is Brampton Library - Chinguacousy Branch, 1.6 km away
Brampton public library serves the whole of Brampton, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 708,210 people, M-Section (bramalea) among them. 3.4 items per person served went out on loan in 2024. Like every Ontario library, it reports one typical week of visits, and the year is that week times 52: an estimate.
C−Civic life#779 of 866 in OntarioM-Section (bramalea)’s civic life grade, input by input
M-Section (bramalea) gets a C− for civic life, #779 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. M-Section (bramalea) 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.
645 registered charities are based in Brampton, by mailing address
There is no count for M-Section (bramalea) on its own: the charities are those of all of Brampton. Per 1,000 residents that makes 0.8; 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%
For 2023, the provincial survey estimates that 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally (likely 31.0% to 33.2%); among the ten provinces the rate goes from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Behind most of Ontario’s town libraries on all 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 35,658 visits
The year 2024 at Brampton public library, in the library’s own counts.
The closest is 1.6 km from M-Section (bramalea)
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of M-Section (bramalea).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The locations come from OpenStreetMap and from Statistics Canada’s cultural facilities list of 2020, public libraries only.
Questions about the library and civic life in M-Section (bramalea)
Does M-Section (bramalea) have a public library?
Not in M-Section (bramalea): the nearest public library is Brampton Library - Chinguacousy Branch, in H-Section (bramalea).
How busy is Brampton public library?
In 2024 it logged 1,854,216 in-person visits and 2,420,134 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).