Photo: Ymblanter · CC BY-SA 4.0Fort Erie’s public library works from 3 branches
Fort Erie Public Library counts 32,901 people in its service area. Its borrowers took out 3.2 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#264 of 866 in OntarioBehind Fort Erie’s civic life grade
Fort Erie gets a B− for civic life, #264 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. Fort Erie has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
74 registered charities give a Fort Erie mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 2; 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%
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 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 2,207 visits
What Fort Erie Public Library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
3 public libraries in Fort Erie
In order of distance from the centre of Fort Erie, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. A library listed by both OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada appears once; campus, school and private ones are left off.
Questions about the library and civic life in Fort Erie
Does Fort Erie have a public library?
Yes, 3: Fort Erie Public Library - Centennial Branch, Fort Erie Public Library - Crystal Ridge Branch and Fort Erie Public Library - Stevensville Branch.
How busy is Fort Erie Public Library?
Its 2024 report counts 114,764 visits in person and 106,683 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).