Photo: Jason Zhang · CC0At 6.9 visits per person served, Markham public library is busier than 94% of Ontario’s town libraries
The library figures on this page are Markham’s: Markham public library serves all 365,051 people of the city, Underwood among them. In 2024 it lent 8.3 items for every person it serves. 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 Underwood’s civic life grade weighs
With a B−, Underwood ranks #305 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. Underwood 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 give a Markham mailing address
There is no count for Underwood on its own: the charities are those of all of Markham. That is 1 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Ontario town and 1.4 across Canada. 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
Per person served, against the 195 town libraries in Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
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 nearest library is 0.8 km from Underwood
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Underwood.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A library’s visits include people from neighbouring towns and visitors; the statistics don’t say how many come from Underwood itself.
Questions about the library and civic life in Underwood
Does Underwood have a public library?
Not within Underwood itself: the closest is Milliken Mills Community Centre And Library, in Hagerman's Corners.
How busy is Markham public library?
Its 2024 report counts 2,514,720 visits in person and 3,031,444 items lent.
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).