Photo: Jason F. Voll · CC BY-SA 3.0No public library stands in Fairfield: the closest, Kitchener Public Library - Main, is 1.4 km away
The library figures on this page are Kitchener’s: Kitchener public library serves all 292,240 people of the city, Fairfield among them. In 2024 it lent 4.3 items for every person it serves. The yearly visit count is an estimate: Ontario libraries count a typical week, then multiply by 52.
C+Civic life#635 of 866 in OntarioFairfield’s civic life grade, input by input
Fairfield gets a C+ for civic life, #635 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. Fairfield 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.
384 registered charities are based in Kitchener, by mailing address
There is no count for Fairfield on its own: the charities are those of all of Kitchener. Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.2; the median is 1.4 for Ontario towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. 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
Per person served, against the 195 town libraries in Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 23,595 visits in a typical week
The year 2024 at Kitchener public library, in the library’s own counts.
The nearest library is 1.4 km from Fairfield
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Fairfield.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The map joins OpenStreetMap with Statistics Canada’s 2020 cultural facilities list and leaves out school, college and private libraries.
Questions about the library and civic life in Fairfield
Does Fairfield have a public library?
The map shows none in Fairfield; Kitchener Public Library - Main, in Central Frederick, is the closest.
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).