No public library stands in Country Hills: the closest, Kitchener Public Library - Country Hills, is 0.9 km away
Kitchener public library serves the whole of Kitchener, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 292,240 people, Country Hills among them. Loans ran to 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 OntarioCountry Hills’s civic life grade, input by input
Country Hills 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 Country Hills.
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 Country Hills 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. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.
32.1%
For 2023, the provincial survey estimates that 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally (likely 31.0% to 33.2%); among the ten provinces the rate goes from 25.2% 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.
A typical week brings about 23,595 visits
The year 2024 at Kitchener public library, in the library’s own counts.
The closest is 0.9 km from Country Hills
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Country Hills.
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 Country Hills
Does Country Hills have a public library?
No, but Kitchener Public Library - Country Hills in Trillium Industrial Park is the nearest public library to Country Hills.
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).