Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0Mississauga public library logs 4.8 visits per person served, more than 77% of Ontario’s town libraries
Mississauga public library serves the whole of Mississauga, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 796,000 people, Barbertown among them. Its borrowers took out 5.5 items per person served in 2024. The yearly visit count is an estimate: Ontario libraries count a typical week, then multiply by 52.
C+Civic life#456 of 866 in OntarioWhat Barbertown’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Barbertown grades C+: #456 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. Barbertown 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.
867 registered charities are based in Mississauga, by mailing address
There is no count for Barbertown on its own: the charities are those of all of Mississauga. Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.1; 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%
Statistics Canada puts formal volunteering in Ontario at 32.1% in 2023, somewhere between 31.0% and 33.2%, for every town in the province alike; provinces range from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on 2 of 3 measures
Each figure is per person served, set against 195 town libraries in Ontario’s statistics for 2024.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
A typical week brings about 73,078 visits
What Mississauga public library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
The nearest library is 1.2 km from Barbertown
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Barbertown.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Visitors and people from nearby towns are in the count too; how many live in Barbertown isn’t recorded.
Questions about the library and civic life in Barbertown
Does Barbertown have a public library?
Barbertown has none mapped; the closest public library is Mississauga Library - Streetsville, in Streetsville.
How busy is Mississauga public library?
Its 2024 report counts 3,800,056 visits in person and 4,417,125 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).