Photo: Mustang Joe · CC0At 4.8 visits per person served, Mississauga public library is busier than 77% of Ontario’s town libraries
Creditview is served by Mississauga public library, 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. Ontario counts visits over one typical week and multiplies by 52, so the yearly figure is an estimate.
C+Civic life#456 of 866 in OntarioCreditview’s civic life grade, input by input
With a C+, Creditview ranks #456 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 Creditview.
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 Creditview 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. 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.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on 2 of 3 measures
Per person served, against the 195 town libraries in Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 73,078 visits in a typical week
What Mississauga public library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
The nearest library is 1.6 km from Creditview
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Creditview.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Creditview’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Creditview
Does Creditview have a public library?
Creditview has none mapped; the closest public library is Mississauga Central Library, in DT Core.
How busy is Mississauga public library?
3,800,056 in-person visits and 4,417,125 items borrowed 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).