Photo: Canmenwalker · CC BY 4.0Mississauga 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 Library serves all 796,000 people of the city, Hurontario among them. In 2024 it lent 5.5 items for every person it serves. 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 OntarioBehind Hurontario’s civic life grade
With a C+, Hurontario ranks #456 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Hurontario: 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 give a Mississauga mailing address
There is no count for Hurontario 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%
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
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
The year 2024 at Mississauga Library, in the library’s own counts.
Hurontario’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Hurontario.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Hurontario’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Hurontario
Does Hurontario have a public library?
Yes: Frank McKechnie 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).