Photo: Ryan Hodnett · CC BY-SA 4.0Highland West has no public library of its own; the nearest is Kitchener Public Library - Forest Heights, 2 km away
Kitchener public library serves the whole of Kitchener, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 292,240 people, Highland West among them. In 2024 it lent 4.3 items for every person it serves. Ontario counts visits over one typical week and multiplies by 52, so the yearly figure is an estimate.
C+Civic life#635 of 866 in OntarioHighland West’s civic life grade, input by input
Highland West gets a C+ for civic life, #635 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. Highland West 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 give a Kitchener mailing address
There is no count for Highland West 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%
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.
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 2 km from Highland West
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Highland West.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Statistics Canada’s 2020 facilities list and OpenStreetMap supply the points; libraries of schools, colleges and hospitals are not shown.
Questions about the library and civic life in Highland West
Does Highland West have a public library?
The map shows none in Highland West; Kitchener Public Library - Forest Heights, in Forest Heights, is the closest.
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).