Photo: Silver Dovelet · CC BY-SA 4.0Markham public library logs 6.9 visits per person served, more than 94% of Ontario’s town libraries
Steeles Corners is served by Markham public library, the library of all of Markham, so the figures here are the city’s, for 365,051 people. Its borrowers took out 8.3 items per person served 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 OntarioSteeles Corners’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Steeles Corners grades B−: #305 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. Steeles Corners 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.
Markham mailing addresses hold 356 registered charities
There is no count for Steeles Corners 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. 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%
Formal volunteering is measured only for the province: 32.1% of Ontario’s people in 2023, give or take (31.0% to 33.2%), with the provinces between 25.2% and 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 nearest library is 1.1 km from Steeles Corners
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Steeles Corners.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Steeles Corners’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Steeles Corners
Does Steeles Corners have a public library?
Steeles Corners has none mapped; the closest public library is Markham Public Library - Thornhill Village Branch, in Langstaff.
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).