Photo: Ryan Hodnett · CC BY-SA 4.0Victoria Hills has no public library of its own; the nearest is Kitchener Public Library - Forest Heights, 1.6 km away
The library figures on this page are Kitchener’s: Kitchener public library serves all 292,240 people of the city, Victoria Hills among them. Its borrowers took out 4.3 items per person served 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 OntarioBehind Victoria Hills’s civic life grade
Civic life in Victoria Hills grades C+: #635 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. 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 Victoria Hills.
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 Victoria Hills 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%
Across Ontario, 32.1% of people volunteered through an organization in 2023, a provincial estimate with a likely range of 31.0% to 33.2%; the lowest province sits at 25.2% and the highest at 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
Everything counted at Kitchener public library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
The nearest library is 1.6 km from Victoria Hills
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Victoria Hills.
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 Victoria Hills
Does Victoria Hills have a public library?
Victoria Hills has none mapped; the closest public library is Kitchener Public Library - Forest Heights, in Forest Heights.
How busy is Kitchener public library?
It counted 1,226,940 in-person visits and lent 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).