Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 3.0Cherry Hill has no public library of its own; the nearest is Waterloo Public Library - Main, 2 km away
Cherry Hill is served by Kitchener public library, the library of all of Kitchener, so the figures here are the city’s, for 292,240 people. 4.3 items per person served went out on loan 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 OntarioCherry Hill’s civic life grade, input by input
With a C+, Cherry Hill ranks #635 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. 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 Cherry Hill.
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 Cherry Hill 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%
Volunteering here is a provincial number: 32.1% of people across Ontario in 2023, likely 31.0% to 33.2%, set in a ten-province range of 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 closest is 2 km from Cherry Hill
In order of distance from the centre of Cherry Hill, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Only public libraries are mapped: OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, with school and university libraries removed.
Questions about the library and civic life in Cherry Hill
Does Cherry Hill have a public library?
Not in Cherry Hill: the nearest public library is Waterloo Public Library - Main, in Waterloo.
How busy is Kitchener public library?
People made 1,226,940 visits in person and borrowed 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).