Photo: Adam Bishop · CC BY-SA 4.0More visits per person served than 77% of Ontario’s town libraries: Mississauga public library counts 4.8
Roseborough is served by Mississauga public library, the library of all of Mississauga, so the figures here are the city’s, for 796,000 people. 5.5 items per person served went out on loan 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 OntarioWhat Roseborough’s civic life grade weighs
With a C+, Roseborough 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 Roseborough.
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 Roseborough 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. 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%
Statistics Canada puts formal volunteering in Ontario at 32.1% in 2023, somewhere between 31.0% and 33.2%, for every town in the province alike; provinces range 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.
About 73,078 visits in a typical week
Everything counted at Mississauga public library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
The closest is 2.2 km from Roseborough
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Roseborough.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Visitors and people from nearby towns are in the count too; how many live in Roseborough isn’t recorded.
Questions about the library and civic life in Roseborough
Does Roseborough have a public library?
Not in Roseborough: the nearest public library is Mississauga Library - Streetsville, in Streetsville.
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).