Photo: Canmenwalker · CC BY 4.0Markham public library draws 6.9 visits per person served, ahead of 94% of Ontario’s town libraries
Markham public library serves the whole of Markham, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 365,051 people, Brown's Corners among them. Its borrowers took out 8.3 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#305 of 866 in OntarioWhat Brown's Corners’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Brown's Corners grades B−: #305 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Brown's Corners: 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.
356 registered charities give a Markham mailing address
There is no count for Brown's Corners on its own: the charities are those of all of Markham. It works out to 1 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Ontario town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. 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.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on all 3 measures
Each figure is per person served, set against 195 town libraries in Ontario’s statistics for 2024.
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 nearest library is 2.9 km from Brown's Corners
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Brown's Corners.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Visitors and people from nearby towns are in the count too; how many live in Brown's Corners isn’t recorded.
Questions about the library and civic life in Brown's Corners
Does Brown's Corners have a public library?
There isn’t one in Brown's Corners; people there use libraries such as Old Unionville Library Community Centre, in Unionville.
How busy is Markham public library?
People made 2,514,720 visits in person and borrowed 3,031,444 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).