More visits per person served than 77% of Ontario’s town libraries: Mississauga public library counts 4.8
Mississauga public library serves the whole of Mississauga, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 796,000 people, Lisgar among them. In 2024 it lent 5.5 items for every person it serves. 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 Lisgar’s civic life grade weighs
Lisgar gets a C+ for civic life, #456 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. Lisgar has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s 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 Lisgar 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. 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%
Across Ontario, 32.1% of people volunteered through an organization in 2023, a provincial estimate with a likely range of 31.0% to 33.2%; the lowest province sits at 25.2% and the highest at 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.
A typical week brings about 73,078 visits
The year 2024 at Mississauga public library, in the library’s own counts.
The nearest library is 2 km from Lisgar
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Lisgar.
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 Lisgar; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in Lisgar
Does Lisgar have a public library?
Not within Lisgar itself: the closest is Mississauga Library - Meadowvale, in Meadowvale.
How busy is Mississauga public library?
Its 2024 report counts 3,800,056 visits in person and 4,417,125 items lent.
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).