Photo: THENEWMIKON8ER at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0At 4.8 visits per person served, Mississauga public library is busier 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, Erin Mills among them. In 2024 it lent 5.5 items for every person it serves. 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 OntarioBehind Erin Mills’s civic life grade
Erin Mills gets a C+ for civic life, #456 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Erin Mills: 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 Erin Mills 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. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
32.1%
In 2023, 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally: one estimate for the whole province, likely between 31.0% and 33.2%, in a range of 25.2% to 40.3% across the ten provinces.
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.
About 73,078 visits in a typical week
Everything counted at Mississauga public library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
The nearest library is 0.9 km from Erin Mills
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Erin Mills.
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 Erin Mills itself.
Questions about the library and civic life in Erin Mills
Does Erin Mills have a public library?
Not within Erin Mills itself: the closest is South Common Pop Up Library, in South Common.
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).