Photo: ChadPerez49 · CC BY-SA 3.0Markham public library draws 6.9 visits per person served, ahead of 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, Wismer Commons among them. Its borrowers took out 8.3 items per person served in 2024. 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 OntarioWhat Wismer Commons’s civic life grade weighs
With a B−, Wismer Commons ranks #305 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. Wismer Commons 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 Wismer Commons 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. 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%
One figure covers all of Ontario: in 2023, 32.1% of its people gave time to an organization (between 31.0% and 33.2%), against a provincial range of 25.2% to 40.3%.
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
What Markham public library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
The nearest library is 3.1 km from Wismer Commons
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Wismer Commons.
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 Wismer Commons itself.
Questions about the library and civic life in Wismer Commons
Does Wismer Commons have a public library?
Wismer Commons has none mapped; the closest public library is Markham Public Library - Markham Village Branch, in Vinegar Hill.
How busy is Markham public library?
In 2024 it logged 2,514,720 in-person visits and 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).