Photo: Transportfan70 · CC0More visits per person served than 94% of Ontario’s town libraries: Markham public library counts 6.9
The library figures on this page are Markham’s: Markham public library serves all 365,051 people of the city, Cathedraltown among them. Loans ran to 8.3 items per person served in 2024. Like every Ontario library, it reports one typical week of visits, and the year is that week times 52: an estimate.
B−Civic life#305 of 866 in OntarioWhat Cathedraltown’s civic life grade weighs
With a B−, Cathedraltown ranks #305 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. Cathedraltown 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.
356 registered charities give a Markham mailing address
There is no count for Cathedraltown 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. 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%
Volunteering here is a provincial number: 32.1% of people across Ontario in 2023, likely 31.0% to 33.2%, set in a ten-province range of 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on all 3 measures
Measured per person served against the 195 town libraries of Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 48,360 visits in a typical week
The year 2024 at Markham public library, in the library’s own counts.
The closest is 1.9 km from Cathedraltown
In order of distance from the centre of Cathedraltown, as the crow flies.
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 Cathedraltown itself.
Questions about the library and civic life in Cathedraltown
Does Cathedraltown have a public library?
No library is mapped inside Cathedraltown, and the nearest one is Richmond Hill Public Library - Richmond Green Branch in Richmond Hill.
How busy is Markham public library?
It counted 2,514,720 in-person visits and lent 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).