Mississauga public library logs 4.8 visits per person served, more than 77% of Ontario’s town libraries
Mississauga Valleys is served by Mississauga public 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. The yearly visit count is an estimate: Ontario libraries count a typical week, then multiply by 52.
C+Civic life#456 of 866 in OntarioMississauga Valleys’s civic life grade, input by input
With a C+, Mississauga Valleys 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 Mississauga Valleys.
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 Mississauga Valleys 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%
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.
About 73,078 visits in a typical week
Everything counted at Mississauga public library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
The closest is 0.9 km from Mississauga Valleys
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Mississauga Valleys.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Mississauga Valleys’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Mississauga Valleys
Does Mississauga Valleys have a public library?
No library is mapped inside Mississauga Valleys, and the nearest one is Mississauga Library - Mississauga Valley in DT Fairview.
How busy is Mississauga public library?
For 2024 it reported 4,417,125 loans and 3,800,056 in-person visits.
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).