The nearest public library to Forest Hill is Forest Heights Community Library, 0.8 km away
Kitchener public library serves the whole of Kitchener, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 292,240 people, Forest Hill among them. Its borrowers took out 4.3 items per person served in 2024. Visits here are a typical week’s count times 52, Ontario’s method, so read them as an estimate.
C+Civic life#635 of 866 in OntarioBehind Forest Hill’s civic life grade
Forest Hill 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 Forest Hill.
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 Forest Hill 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%
No town-level count exists, so the page uses Ontario as a whole: 32.1% volunteered formally in 2023, between 31.0% and 33.2%, while the provinces span 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.
The nearest library is 0.8 km from Forest Hill
In order of distance from the centre of Forest Hill, as the crow flies.
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 Hill
Does Forest Hill have a public library?
Forest Hill has none mapped; the closest public library is Forest Heights Community Library, in Forest Heights.
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).