Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 3.0City Commercial Core has no public library of its own; the nearest is Kitchener Public Library - Main, 0.3 km away
City Commercial Core is served by Kitchener public library, the library of all of Kitchener, so the figures here are the city’s, for 292,240 people. In 2024 it lent 4.3 items for every person it serves. 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 OntarioCity Commercial Core’s civic life grade, input by input
City Commercial Core gets a C+ for civic life, #635 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. 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 City Commercial Core.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
384 registered charities give a Kitchener mailing address
There is no count for City Commercial Core 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.
32.1%
Formal volunteering is measured only for the province: 32.1% of Ontario’s people in 2023, give or take (31.0% to 33.2%), with the provinces between 25.2% and 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
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.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
A typical week brings about 23,595 visits
The year 2024 at Kitchener public library, in the library’s own counts.
The nearest library is 0.3 km from City Commercial Core
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of City Commercial Core.
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 City Commercial Core
Does City Commercial Core have a public library?
Not within City Commercial Core itself: the closest is Kitchener Public Library - Main, in Central Frederick.
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).