Photo: Loozrboy from Toronto, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0At 6.9 visits per person served, Markham Public Library is busier than 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, Cornell among them. Its borrowers took out 8.3 items per person served in 2024. Ontario counts visits over one typical week and multiplies by 52, so the yearly figure is an estimate.
B−Civic life#305 of 866 in OntarioWhat Cornell’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Cornell grades B−: #305 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Cornell: 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 Cornell on its own: the charities are those of all of Markham. That is 1 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Ontario town and 1.4 across Canada. 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%
One figure covers all of Ontario: in 2023, 32.1% of its people gave time to an organization (between 31.0% and 33.2%), against a provincial 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
Per person served, against the 195 town libraries in Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 48,360 visits in a typical week
Everything counted at Markham Public Library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
Cornell’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Cornell.
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 Cornell.
Questions about the library and civic life in Cornell
Does Cornell have a public library?
Yes: Markham Public Library - Cornell Branch.
How busy is Markham Public Library?
The 2024 totals: 2,514,720 in-person visits, 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).