Photo: Bohao Zhao · CC BY 3.0Windsor public library logs 2.1 visits per person served, fewer than 80% of Ontario’s town libraries
The library figures on this page are Windsor’s: Windsor public library serves all 234,219 people of the city, City Centre among them. In 2024 it lent 3.1 items for every person it serves. Ontario counts visits over one typical week and multiplies by 52, so the yearly figure is an estimate.
CCivic life#735 of 866 in OntarioWhat City Centre’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in City Centre grades C: #735 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for City Centre: 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.
414 registered charities are based in Windsor, by mailing address
There is no count for City Centre on its own: the charities are those of all of Windsor. Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.5; the median is 1.4 for Ontario towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. 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%
Statistics Canada puts formal volunteering in Ontario at 32.1% in 2023, somewhere between 31.0% and 33.2%, for every town in the province alike; provinces range from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on 1 of 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 9,591 visits
Everything counted at Windsor public library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
2 public libraries in City Centre
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of City Centre.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The locations come from OpenStreetMap and from Statistics Canada’s cultural facilities list of 2020, public libraries only.
Questions about the library and civic life in City Centre
Does City Centre have a public library?
Yes, 2: Central Resource Library and Windsor Public Library Central Branch.
How busy is Windsor public library?
People made 498,732 visits in person and borrowed 720,746 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).