Photo: Hozombel at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0More visits per person served than 84% of Ontario’s town libraries: Milton Public Library counts 5.5
Milton Public Library serves 142,811 people from 3 branches. Its borrowers took out 5.3 items per person served in 2024. Like every Ontario library, it reports one typical week of visits, and the year is that week times 52: an estimate.
C+Civic life#604 of 866 in OntarioBehind Milton’s civic life grade
With a C+, Milton ranks #604 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 Milton.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
114 registered charities are based in Milton, by mailing address
That is 0.7 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Ontario town and 1.4 across Canada. 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%
No town-level count exists, so the page uses Ontario as a whole: 32.1% volunteered formally in 2023, between 31.0% and 33.2%, while the provinces span 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.
About 15,171 visits in a typical week
What Milton Public Library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
3 public libraries in Milton
In order of distance from the centre of Milton, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Tourists, commuters and neighbours all add to the visits, and nobody records which of them live in Milton.
Questions about the library and civic life in Milton
Does Milton have a public library?
Yes, 3: Milton Public Library - Beaty Branch, Milton Public Library - Main Branch and Milton Public Library - Sherwood Branch.
How busy is Milton Public Library?
The 2024 totals: 788,892 in-person visits, 760,978 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).