Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0Meinzinger Park-Lakeside has no public library of its own; the nearest is Kitchener Public Library - Forest Heights, 1.6 km away
Meinzinger Park-Lakeside 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. 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 OntarioWhat Meinzinger Park-Lakeside’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Meinzinger Park-Lakeside grades C+: #635 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. Meinzinger Park-Lakeside 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 Meinzinger Park-Lakeside on its own: the charities are those of all of Kitchener. That is 1.2 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Ontario town and 1.4 across Canada. 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%
Formal volunteering is measured only for the province: 32.1% of Ontario’s people in 2023, give or take (31.0% to 33.2%), with the provinces between 25.2% and 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
What Kitchener public library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
The closest is 1.6 km from Meinzinger Park-Lakeside
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Meinzinger Park-Lakeside.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020), merged; school, college, hospital and private libraries are left out.
Questions about the library and civic life in Meinzinger Park-Lakeside
Does Meinzinger Park-Lakeside have a public library?
No, but Kitchener Public Library - Forest Heights in Forest Heights is the nearest public library to Meinzinger Park-Lakeside.
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).