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Libraries · Churchill Meadows

Churchill Meadows Branch Library And Active Living Centre draws 4.8 visits per person served, ahead of 77% of Ontario’s town libraries

Churchill Meadows is served by Churchill Meadows Branch Library And Active Living Centre, the library of all of Mississauga, so the figures here are the city’s, for 796,000 people. Its borrowers took out 5.5 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.

C+Civic life#456 of 866 in Ontario
Visits a year
3,800,056
4.8 per person served
Borrowed a year
4,417,125
5.5 per person served
Cardholders
26%
210,613 cards
Libraries
1
Charities
867
1.1 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

What Churchill Meadows’s civic life grade weighs

Civic life in Churchill Meadows grades C+: #456 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Churchill Meadows: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.

C+
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Churchill Meadows’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

867 registered charities give a Mississauga mailing address

There is no count for Churchill Meadows 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. 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.

Volunteering

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.

How it compares

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.

Visits per person served 4.8 visits · typical 3.4Higher than 77%
Loans per person served 5.5 items · typical 4Higher than 77%
Cardholders 26% of people served · typical 27%Lower than 52%
Fewer per personMore per person
Who is compared

Town libraries only; regional systems left out.

A year at the library

A typical week brings about 73,078 visits

What Churchill Meadows Branch Library And Active Living Centre counted in 2024, as the library reported it.

3,800,056
in-person visits
4.8 per person served
4,417,125
items borrowed
5.5 per person served
210,613
cardholders
26% of people served
Every day12,102items borrowed
796,000 people served
The libraries

Churchill Meadows’s public library

Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Churchill Meadows.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from Churchill Meadows or not, and the statistics have no resident share.

Questions about the library and civic life in Churchill Meadows

Does Churchill Meadows have a public library?

Yes: Churchill Meadows Branch Library And Active Living Centre.

How busy is Churchill Meadows Branch Library And Active Living Centre?

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).