Photo: Silver Dovelet · CC BY-SA 3.0Markham 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, Mount Joy among them. In 2024 it lent 8.3 items for every person it serves. 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 OntarioMount Joy’s civic life grade, input by input
With a B−, Mount Joy ranks #305 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. Mount Joy 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 are based in Markham, by mailing address
There is no count for Mount Joy 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%
In 2023, 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally: one estimate for the whole province, likely between 31.0% and 33.2%, in a range of 25.2% to 40.3% across the ten provinces.
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.
About 48,360 visits in a typical week
The year 2024 at Markham public library, in the library’s own counts.
The nearest library is 1.7 km from Mount Joy
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Mount Joy.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Mount Joy’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Mount Joy
Does Mount Joy have a public library?
The map shows none in Mount Joy; Markham Public Library - Markham Village Branch, in Vinegar Hill, is the closest.
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).