Photo: Reg Natarajan from Vancouver, Canada · CC BY 2.0At 5.7 visits per person served, Vaughan public library is busier than 87% of Ontario’s town libraries
Elder Mills is served by Vaughan public library, the library of all of Vaughan, so the figures here are the city’s, for 344,930 people. Its borrowers took out 3.8 items per person served in 2024. Ontario counts visits over one typical week and multiplies by 52, so the yearly figure is an estimate.
B−Civic life#272 of 866 in OntarioElder Mills’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Elder Mills grades B−: #272 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. 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 Elder Mills.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Vaughan mailing addresses hold 463 registered charities
There is no count for Elder Mills on its own: the charities are those of all of Vaughan. It works out to 1.3 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%
One figure covers all of Ontario: in 2023, 32.1% of its people gave time to an organization (between 31.0% and 33.2%), against a provincial range of 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on 1 of 3 measures
Measured per person served against the 195 town libraries of Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
A typical week brings about 38,016 visits
Everything counted at Vaughan public library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
The nearest library is 1.5 km from Elder Mills
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Elder Mills.
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 Elder Mills isn’t recorded.
Questions about the library and civic life in Elder Mills
Does Elder Mills have a public library?
There isn’t one in Elder Mills; people there use libraries such as Pierre Berton Resource Library, in Pine Grove.
How busy is Vaughan public library?
People made 1,976,832 visits in person and borrowed 1,302,135 items 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).