Photo: Canmenwalker · CC BY 4.0At 4.8 visits per person served, Mississauga Library is busier 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, Erindale among them. Loans ran to 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 OntarioWhat Erindale’s civic life grade weighs
With a C+, Erindale ranks #456 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Erindale: 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.
867 registered charities are based in Mississauga, by mailing address
There is no count for Erindale 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%
No town-level count exists, so the page uses Ontario as a whole: 32.1% volunteered formally in 2023, between 31.0% and 33.2%, while the provinces span 25.2% to 40.3%.
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
The year 2024 at Mississauga Library, in the library’s own counts.
Erindale’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Erindale, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Tourists, commuters and neighbours all add to the visits, and nobody records which of them live in Erindale.
Questions about the library and civic life in Erindale
Does Erindale have a public library?
Yes: Mississauga Library - The Woodlands.
How busy is Mississauga Library?
For 2024 it reported 4,417,125 loans and 3,800,056 in-person visits.
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).