Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 3.0Stanley Park has no public library of its own; the nearest is Grand River Stanley Park Community Library, 1.8 km away
The library figures on this page are Kitchener’s: Kitchener public library serves all 292,240 people of the city, Stanley Park among them. 4.3 items per person served went out on loan in 2024. 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 OntarioStanley Park’s civic life grade, input by input
Stanley Park gets a C+ for civic life, #635 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Stanley Park: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial 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 Stanley 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. 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
What Kitchener public library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
The closest is 1.8 km from Stanley Park
In order of distance from the centre of Stanley Park, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Locations merge two sources, OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, without school, college or hospital libraries.
Questions about the library and civic life in Stanley Park
Does Stanley Park have a public library?
None is mapped in Stanley Park; the nearest is Grand River Stanley Park Community Library, in Heritage Park.
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).