Photo: Andrew Currie 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, Milliken among them. Loans ran to 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 Milliken’s civic life grade weighs
With a B−, Milliken ranks #305 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. 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 Milliken.
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 Milliken on its own: the charities are those of all of Markham. Per 1,000 residents that makes 1; the median is 1.4 for Ontario towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
32.1%
Between 31.0% and 33.2% of people in Ontario volunteered formally in 2023, 32.1% at the estimate’s middle; that is one figure for the province, which ranges from 25.2% to 40.3% nationally.
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.
The closest is 1.5 km from Milliken
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Milliken.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from Milliken or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
Questions about the library and civic life in Milliken
Does Milliken have a public library?
No, but Milliken Mills Community Centre And Library in Hagerman's Corners is the nearest public library to Milliken.
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).