Photo: Utcursch · CC BY-SA 3.0At 4.8 visits per person served, Mississauga Library is busier than 77% of Ontario’s town libraries
Lakeview is served by Mississauga Library, the library of all of Mississauga, so the figures here are the city’s, for 796,000 people. 5.5 items per person served went out on loan 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 OntarioBehind Lakeview’s civic life grade
Civic life in Lakeview 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 Lakeview.
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 Lakeview 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. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.
32.1%
Statistics Canada puts formal volunteering in Ontario at 32.1% in 2023, somewhere between 31.0% and 33.2%, for every town in the province alike; provinces range from 25.2% to 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.
Lakeview’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Lakeview.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A busy library may owe some of its visits to people who live outside Lakeview; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in Lakeview
Does Lakeview have a public library?
Yes: Mississauga Library - Lakeview.
How busy is Mississauga Library?
Over 2024: 4,417,125 items out on loan, 3,800,056 visits through the door.
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).