Photo: Silver Dovelet · CC BY-SA 4.0More visits per person served than 94% of Ontario’s town libraries: Markham Public Library counts 6.9
Markham Public Library serves the whole of Markham, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 365,051 people, Langstaff among them. 8.3 items per person served went out on loan 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 OntarioLangstaff’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Langstaff grades B−: #305 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Langstaff: 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 Langstaff 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. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
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
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
The year 2024 at Markham Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Langstaff’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Langstaff.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from Langstaff or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
Questions about the library and civic life in Langstaff
Does Langstaff have a public library?
Yes: Markham Public Library - Thornhill Village Branch.
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).