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Libraries · Cedar Hill

The nearest public library to Cedar Hill is Kitchener Public Library - Main, 0.9 km away

The library figures on this page are Kitchener’s: Kitchener public library serves all 292,240 people of the city, Cedar Hill among them. Its borrowers took out 4.3 items per person served in 2024. Like every Ontario library, it reports one typical week of visits, and the year is that week times 52: an estimate.

C+Civic life#635 of 866 in Ontario
Visits a year
1,226,940
4.2 per person served
Borrowed a year
1,268,962
4.3 per person served
Cardholders
35%
103,451 cards
Charities
384
1.2 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

What Cedar Hill’s civic life grade weighs

With a C+, Cedar Hill ranks #635 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Cedar Hill: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.

C+
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Cedar Hill’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

Kitchener mailing addresses hold 384 registered charities

There is no count for Cedar Hill on its own: the charities are those of all of Kitchener. That is 1.2 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Ontario town and 1.4 across Canada. 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.

Volunteering

32.1%

Across Ontario, 32.1% of people volunteered through an organization in 2023, a provincial estimate with a likely range of 31.0% to 33.2%; the lowest province sits at 25.2% and the highest at 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

How it compares

Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on all 3 measures

Each figure is per person served, set against 195 town libraries in Ontario’s statistics for 2024.

Visits per person served 4.2 visits · typical 3.4Higher than 68%
Loans per person served 4.3 items · typical 4Higher than 61%
Cardholders 35% of people served · typical 27%Higher than 74%
Fewer per personMore per person
Who is compared

Town libraries only; regional systems left out.

A year at the library

About 23,595 visits in a typical week

What Kitchener public library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.

1,226,940
in-person visits
4.2 per person served
1,268,962
items borrowed
4.3 per person served
103,451
cardholders
35% of people served
Every day3,477items borrowed
292,240 people served
Nearest libraries

The nearest library is 0.9 km from Cedar Hill

Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Cedar Hill.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Library locations. Two sources make the map, OpenStreetMap and a 2020 Statistics Canada list, with academic and private libraries dropped.

Questions about the library and civic life in Cedar Hill

Does Cedar Hill have a public library?

There isn’t one in Cedar Hill; people there use libraries such as Kitchener Public Library - Main, in Central Frederick.

How busy is Kitchener public library?

It counted 1,226,940 in-person visits and lent 1,268,962 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).