Photo: Sikander Iqbal · CC BY-SA 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, German Mills among them. 8.3 items per person served went out on loan 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 OntarioGerman Mills’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in German Mills grades B−: #305 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. A civic life grade combines library visits per resident, registered charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate, and all three exist for German Mills.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
356 registered charities are based in Markham, by mailing address
There is no count for German Mills 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. 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%
The 2023 survey gives Ontario one volunteering rate for all its towns, 32.1% (between 31.0% and 33.2%), while provinces run from 25.2% at the low end 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.
A typical week brings about 48,360 visits
The year 2024 at Markham public library, in the library’s own counts.
The closest is 2.5 km from German Mills
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of German Mills.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A busy library may owe some of its visits to people who live outside German Mills; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in German Mills
Does German Mills have a public library?
Not in German Mills: the nearest public library is Markham Public Library - Thornhill Branch, in Thornlea.
How busy is Markham public library?
Its 2024 report counts 2,514,720 visits in person and 3,031,444 items lent.
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).