The nearest public library to Alpine is Kitchener Public Library - Country Hills, 0.9 km away
Alpine is served by Kitchener public library, the library of all of Kitchener, so the figures here are the city’s, for 292,240 people. Its borrowers took out 4.3 items per person served in 2024. The yearly visit count is an estimate: Ontario libraries count a typical week, then multiply by 52.
C+Civic life#635 of 866 in OntarioWhat Alpine’s civic life grade weighs
Alpine gets a C+ for civic life, #635 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Alpine: 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.
384 registered charities are based in Kitchener, by mailing address
There is no count for Alpine on its own: the charities are those of all of Kitchener. Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.2; the median is 1.4 for Ontario towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
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 all 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 23,595 visits
Everything counted at Kitchener public library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
The nearest library is 0.9 km from Alpine
In order of distance from the centre of Alpine, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020), merged; school, college, hospital and private libraries are left out.
Questions about the library and civic life in Alpine
Does Alpine have a public library?
Alpine has none mapped; the closest public library is Kitchener Public Library - Country Hills, in Trillium Industrial Park.
How busy is Kitchener public library?
In 2024 it logged 1,226,940 in-person visits and 1,268,962 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).