Photo: Jjj84206 · CC BY-SA 4.0At 4.8 visits per person served, Mississauga Library is busier than 77% of Ontario’s town libraries
Mississauga Library serves the whole of Mississauga, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 796,000 people, Meadowvale among them. Its borrowers took out 5.5 items per person served 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 Meadowvale’s civic life grade
With a C+, Meadowvale ranks #456 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. 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 Meadowvale.
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 Meadowvale on its own: the charities are those of all of Mississauga. It works out to 1.1 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Ontario town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. 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%
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.
A typical week brings about 73,078 visits
Everything counted at Mississauga Library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
Meadowvale’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Meadowvale.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Meadowvale’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Meadowvale
Does Meadowvale have a public library?
Yes: Mississauga Library - Meadowvale.
How busy is Mississauga 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).