Photo: Ian Muttoo from Mississauga, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Mississauga Library logs 4.8 visits per person served, more than 77% of Ontario’s town libraries
Mississauga Library serves the whole of Mississauga, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 796,000 people, DT Core among them. In 2024 it lent 5.5 items for every person it serves. 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 DT Core’s civic life grade weighs
DT Core gets a C+ for civic life, #456 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. DT Core 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 give a Mississauga mailing address
There is no count for DT Core on its own: the charities are those of all of Mississauga. That is 1.1 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Ontario town and 1.4 across Canada. 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%
Across Ontario, 32.1% of people volunteered through an organization in 2023, a provincial estimate with a likely range of 31.0% to 33.2%; the lowest province sits at 25.2% and the highest at 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.
A typical week brings about 73,078 visits
What Mississauga Library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
DT Core’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of DT Core.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A library’s visits include people from neighbouring towns and visitors; the statistics don’t say how many come from DT Core itself.
Questions about the library and civic life in DT Core
Does DT Core have a public library?
Yes: Hazel McCallion Central Library.
How busy is Mississauga Library?
In 2024 it logged 3,800,056 in-person visits and 4,417,125 loans.
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).