Photo: Photographer: Christine Lee (Malton Resident) ( Tuvok649 ) · CC BY 3.0More visits per person served than 77% of Ontario’s town libraries: Mississauga Library counts 4.8
Malton is served by Mississauga Library, the library of all of Mississauga, so the figures here are the city’s, for 796,000 people. Loans ran to 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 OntarioMalton’s civic life grade, input by input
Malton gets a C+ for civic life, #456 of 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 Malton.
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 Malton 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. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
32.1%
The whole province shares one estimate: 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally in 2023 (between 31.0% and 33.2%), where the ten provinces run 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
The year 2024 at Mississauga Library, in the library’s own counts.
Malton’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Malton, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from Malton or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
Questions about the library and civic life in Malton
Does Malton have a public library?
Yes: Missisauga Library - Malton.
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).