Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0Mississauga public library logs 4.8 visits per person served, more than 77% of Ontario’s town libraries
The library figures on this page are Mississauga’s: Mississauga public library serves all 796,000 people of the city, Britannia among them. 5.5 items per person served went out on loan 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 OntarioBehind Britannia’s civic life grade
Britannia gets a C+ for civic life, #456 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. Britannia 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 Britannia on its own: the charities are those of all of Mississauga. It works out to 1.1 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Ontario town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. 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%
For 2023, the provincial survey estimates that 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally (likely 31.0% to 33.2%); among the ten provinces the rate goes 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
Measured per person served against the 195 town libraries of Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
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 closest is 2.4 km from Britannia
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Britannia.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from Britannia or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
Questions about the library and civic life in Britannia
Does Britannia have a public library?
None is mapped in Britannia; the nearest is Frank McKechnie Library, in Hurontario.
How busy is Mississauga public library?
People made 3,800,056 visits in person and borrowed 4,417,125 items in 2024.
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).