Photo: A J Butler · CC BY 3.0Pioneer Park’s public library is Kitchener Public Library - Pioneer Park
Kitchener Public Library serves the whole of Kitchener, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 292,240 people, Pioneer Park 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 OntarioPioneer Park’s civic life grade, input by input
With a C+, Pioneer Park ranks #635 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. 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 Pioneer Park.
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 Pioneer Park 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. 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%
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.
A typical week brings about 23,595 visits
What Kitchener Public Library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
Pioneer Park’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Pioneer Park.
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 Pioneer Park
Does Pioneer Park have a public library?
Yes: Kitchener Public Library - Pioneer Park.
How busy is Kitchener Public Library?
Its 2024 report counts 1,226,940 visits in person and 1,268,962 items lent.
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).