Mississauga public library logs 4.8 visits per person served, more than 77% of Ontario’s town libraries
Mississauga public library serves the whole of Mississauga, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 796,000 people, Mineola among them. In 2024 it lent 5.5 items for every person it serves. The yearly visit count is an estimate: Ontario libraries count a typical week, then multiply by 52.
C+Civic life#456 of 866 in OntarioMineola’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Mineola grades C+: #456 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. Mineola 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.
867 registered charities are based in Mississauga, by mailing address
There is no count for Mineola 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%
No town-level count exists, so the page uses Ontario as a whole: 32.1% volunteered formally in 2023, between 31.0% and 33.2%, while the provinces span 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on 2 of 3 measures
Measured per person served against the 195 town libraries of Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 73,078 visits in a typical week
The year 2024 at Mississauga public library, in the library’s own counts.
The nearest library is 1.5 km from Mineola
In order of distance from the centre of Mineola, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Mineola’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Mineola
Does Mineola have a public library?
The map shows none in Mineola; Mississauga Library - Port Credit, in Port Credit, is the closest.
How busy is Mississauga public library?
3,800,056 in-person visits and 4,417,125 items borrowed in 2024.
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).