Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0Kitchener Public Library - Forest Heights is Forest Heights’s public library
Forest Heights is served by Kitchener Public Library, the library of all of Kitchener, so the figures here are the city’s, for 292,240 people. Loans ran to 4.3 items per person served in 2024. The yearly visit count is an estimate: Ontario libraries count a typical week, then multiply by 52.
C+Civic life#635 of 866 in OntarioForest Heights’s civic life grade, input by input
Forest Heights gets a C+ for civic life, #635 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. Forest Heights 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 Forest Heights 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%
One figure covers all of Ontario: in 2023, 32.1% of its people gave time to an organization (between 31.0% and 33.2%), against a provincial 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
Each figure is per person served, set against 195 town libraries in Ontario’s statistics for 2024.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 23,595 visits in a typical week
Everything counted at Kitchener Public Library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
Forest Heights’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Forest Heights.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. A library listed by both OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada appears once; campus, school and private ones are left off.
Questions about the library and civic life in Forest Heights
Does Forest Heights have a public library?
Yes: Kitchener Public Library - Forest Heights.
How busy is Kitchener Public Library?
The 2024 totals: 1,226,940 in-person visits, 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).