Photo: Canmenwalker · CC BY 4.0Mississauga public library draws 4.8 visits per person served, ahead of 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, Dixie among them. Loans ran to 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 OntarioDixie’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Dixie grades C+: #456 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Dixie: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Mississauga mailing addresses hold 867 registered charities
There is no count for Dixie 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%
Between 31.0% and 33.2% of people in Ontario volunteered formally in 2023, 32.1% at the estimate’s middle; that is one figure for the province, which ranges from 25.2% to 40.3% nationally.
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 closest is 2.3 km from Dixie
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Dixie.
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 Dixie isn’t recorded.
Questions about the library and civic life in Dixie
Does Dixie have a public library?
No library is mapped inside Dixie, and the nearest one is Mississauga Library - Burnhamthorpe in Rathwood.
How busy is Mississauga public library?
Over 2024: 4,417,125 items out on loan, 3,800,056 visits through the door.
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).