Photo: Liam Quinn from Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0No public library stands in Bridgeport North: the closest, Region Of Waterloo Library - Bloomingdale Branch, is 1.9 km away
Bridgeport North is served by Kitchener public library, the library of all of Kitchener, so the figures here are the city’s, for 292,240 people. Loans ran to 4.3 items per person served in 2024. Ontario counts visits over one typical week and multiplies by 52, so the yearly figure is an estimate.
C+Civic life#635 of 866 in OntarioBehind Bridgeport North’s civic life grade
Civic life in Bridgeport North grades C+: #635 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. Bridgeport North 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.
Kitchener mailing addresses hold 384 registered charities
There is no count for Bridgeport North on its own: the charities are those of all of Kitchener. It works out to 1.2 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Ontario town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. The CRA files each charity under its mailing address, so a service town collects its region’s charities and a suburb or rural municipality few.
32.1%
The 2023 survey gives Ontario one volunteering rate for all its towns, 32.1% (between 31.0% and 33.2%), while provinces run from 25.2% at the low end to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on all 3 measures
Measured per person served against the 195 town libraries of Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 23,595 visits in a typical week
Everything counted at Kitchener public library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
The closest is 1.9 km from Bridgeport North
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Bridgeport North.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Public library locations are taken from OpenStreetMap and a 2020 Statistics Canada inventory, merged where both list one place.
Questions about the library and civic life in Bridgeport North
Does Bridgeport North have a public library?
No, but Region Of Waterloo Library - Bloomingdale Branch in Elmira is the nearest public library to Bridgeport North.
How busy is Kitchener public library?
The 2024 totals: 1,226,940 in-person visits, 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).