Photo: Silver Dovelet · CC BY-SA 3.0Markham public library logs 6.9 visits per person served, more than 94% of Ontario’s town libraries
Box Grove is served by Markham public library, the library of all of Markham, so the figures here are the city’s, for 365,051 people. Loans ran to 8.3 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#305 of 866 in OntarioWhat Box Grove’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Box Grove grades B−: #305 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. Box Grove 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.
Markham mailing addresses hold 356 registered charities
There is no count for Box Grove on its own: the charities are those of all of Markham. Per 1,000 residents that makes 1; 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%
Between 31.0% and 33.2% of people in Ontario volunteered formally in 2023, 32.1% at the estimate’s middle; that is one figure for the province, which ranges from 25.2% to 40.3% nationally.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of 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 48,360 visits
Everything counted at Markham public library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
The closest is 1.4 km from Box Grove
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Box Grove.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Tourists, commuters and neighbours all add to the visits, and nobody records which of them live in Box Grove.
Questions about the library and civic life in Box Grove
Does Box Grove have a public library?
No, but Southeast Community Centre And Library in Vinegar Hill is the nearest public library to Box Grove.
How busy is Markham public library?
In 2024 it logged 2,514,720 in-person visits and 3,031,444 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).