Photo: Briantoronto · CC BY-SA 3.0More visits per person served than 77% of Ontario’s town libraries: Mississauga Library counts 4.8
The library figures on this page are Mississauga’s: Mississauga Library serves all 796,000 people of the city, Rathwood 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 Rathwood’s civic life grade weighs
With a C+, Rathwood ranks #456 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Rathwood: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial 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 Rathwood 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. 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
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 Library, in the library’s own counts.
Rathwood’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Rathwood, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A library’s visits include people from neighbouring towns and visitors; the statistics don’t say how many come from Rathwood itself.
Questions about the library and civic life in Rathwood
Does Rathwood have a public library?
Yes: Mississauga Library - Burnhamthorpe.
How busy is Mississauga Library?
In 2024 it logged 3,800,056 in-person visits and 4,417,125 loans.
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).