Photo: Don-vip · CC BY-SA 3.0Niagara Falls has 5 public library branches
The population Niagara Falls Public Library serves is 94,415. Loans ran to 4 items per person served in 2024. The yearly visit count is an estimate: Ontario libraries count a typical week, then multiply by 52.
CCivic life#723 of 866 in OntarioBehind Niagara Falls’s civic life grade
Niagara Falls gets a C for civic life, #723 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Niagara Falls: 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.
Niagara Falls mailing addresses hold 129 registered charities
That is 1.1 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%
One figure covers all of Ontario: in 2023, 32.1% of its people gave time to an organization (between 31.0% and 33.2%), against a provincial range of 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on 1 of 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 6,052 visits
Everything counted at Niagara Falls Public Library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
5 public libraries in Niagara Falls
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Niagara Falls.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Per person served. Each rate divides by the people the library reports serving, which need not match Niagara Falls’s census population.
Questions about the library and civic life in Niagara Falls
Does Niagara Falls have a public library?
Yes, 5: Niagara Falls Public Library - Community Centre Branch, Niagara Falls Public Library, Niagara Falls Public Library - Stamford Centre Branch, Niagara Falls Public Library Chippawa Branch and 1 more.
How busy is Niagara Falls Public Library?
Its 2024 report counts 314,704 visits in person and 377,233 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).