Photo: Chicken4War · CC BY-SA 4.0Midland Public Library is Midland’s public library
Midland Public Library reports for 24,353 people, a wider area than Midland, and its figures cover all of them. Its borrowers took out 5.8 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#29 of 866 in OntarioMidland’s civic life grade, input by input
Midland gets a B+ for civic life, #29 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. Midland has charities and volunteering for a civic life grade, though not library visits, and two of the three are enough.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
54 registered charities are based in Midland, by mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 2.8; 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%
32.1% of people in Ontario did formal volunteering in 2023, a province-wide estimate between 31.0% and 33.2%; across the ten provinces the rate runs from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
About 1 visits in a typical week
What Midland Public Library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
Midland’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Midland.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020), merged; school, college, hospital and private libraries are left out.
Questions about the library and civic life in Midland
Does Midland have a public library?
Yes: Midland Public Library.
How busy is Midland Public Library?
The 2024 totals: 52 in-person visits, 141,591 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).