More visits per person served than 77% of Ontario’s town libraries: Mississauga public library counts 4.8
The library figures on this page are Mississauga’s: Mississauga public library serves all 796,000 people of the city, Fairview among them. Its borrowers took out 5.5 items per person served in 2024. Like every Ontario library, it reports one typical week of visits, and the year is that week times 52: an estimate.
C+Civic life#456 of 866 in OntarioWhat Fairview’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Fairview grades C+: #456 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. 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 Fairview.
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 Fairview 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%
One figure covers all of Ontario: in 2023, 32.1% of its people gave time to an organization (between 31.0% and 33.2%), against a provincial range of 25.2% to 40.3%.
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.
About 73,078 visits in a typical week
The year 2024 at Mississauga public library, in the library’s own counts.
The nearest library is 1.1 km from Fairview
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Fairview.
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 Fairview itself.
Questions about the library and civic life in Fairview
Does Fairview have a public library?
There isn’t one in Fairview; people there use libraries such as Hazel McCallion 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).