Photo: Michael Hiemstra from Canada · CC BY 2.0Southwest Community Library is Rosenberg’s public library
Kitchener Public Library serves the whole of Kitchener, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 292,240 people, Rosenberg among them. 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 OntarioBehind Rosenberg’s civic life grade
With a C+, Rosenberg 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 Rosenberg.
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 Rosenberg 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. 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
Measured per person served against the 195 town libraries of 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.
Rosenberg’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Rosenberg.
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 Rosenberg
Does Rosenberg have a public library?
Yes: Southwest Community Library.
How busy is Kitchener Public Library?
People made 1,226,940 visits in person and borrowed 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).