Mississauga public library draws 4.8 visits per person served, ahead of 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, Uptown among them. Loans ran to 5.5 items per person served in 2024. Visits here are a typical week’s count times 52, Ontario’s method, so read them as an estimate.
C+Civic life#456 of 866 in OntarioWhat Uptown’s civic life grade weighs
With a C+, Uptown ranks #456 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Uptown: 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.
867 registered charities are based in Mississauga, by mailing address
There is no count for Uptown on its own: the charities are those of all of Mississauga. That is 1.1 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Ontario town and 1.4 across Canada. 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%
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
Per person served, against the 195 town libraries in Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
A typical week brings about 73,078 visits
The year 2024 at Mississauga public library, in the library’s own counts.
The closest is 1.4 km from Uptown
In order of distance from the centre of Uptown, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Tourists, commuters and neighbours all add to the visits, and nobody records which of them live in Uptown.
Questions about the library and civic life in Uptown
Does Uptown have a public library?
No, but Frank McKechnie Library in Hurontario is the nearest public library to Uptown.
How busy is Mississauga public 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).