Photo: Sam Nabi · CC BY-SA 4.0Victoria Park has no public library of its own; the nearest is Kitchener Public Library - Main, 1.4 km away
The library figures on this page are Kitchener’s: Kitchener public library serves all 292,240 people of the city, Victoria Park among them. 4.3 items per person served went out on loan 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 OntarioVictoria Park’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Victoria Park 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 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 Victoria Park 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. 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%
Volunteering here is a provincial number: 32.1% of people across Ontario in 2023, likely 31.0% to 33.2%, set in a ten-province range of 25.2% to 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.
The closest is 1.4 km from Victoria Park
In order of distance from the centre of Victoria 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 Victoria Park
Does Victoria Park have a public library?
Not in Victoria Park: the nearest public library is Kitchener Public Library - Main, in Central Frederick.
How busy is Kitchener public library?
Over 2024: 1,268,962 items out on loan, 1,226,940 visits through the door.
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).