Photo: Enoch Leung from Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Markham public library logs 6.9 visits per person served, more 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, Quantztown among them. 8.3 items per person served went out on loan in 2024. The yearly visit count is an estimate: Ontario libraries count a typical week, then multiply by 52.
B−Civic life#305 of 866 in OntarioBehind Quantztown’s civic life grade
With a B−, Quantztown 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 Quantztown.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Markham mailing addresses hold 356 registered charities
There is no count for Quantztown 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. 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%
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.
About 48,360 visits in a typical week
Everything counted at Markham public library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
The closest is 1.8 km from Quantztown
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Quantztown.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Quantztown’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Quantztown
Does Quantztown have a public library?
None is mapped in Quantztown; the nearest is Markham Public Library - Unionville Branch, in Unionville.
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).