Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0Windsor public library draws 2.1 visits per person served, behind 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, East Riverside among them. Its borrowers took out 3.1 items per person served in 2024. Like every Ontario library, it reports one typical week of visits, and the year is that week times 52: an estimate.
CCivic life#735 of 866 in OntarioWhat East Riverside’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in East Riverside grades C: #735 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. East Riverside has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Windsor mailing addresses hold 414 registered charities
There is no count for East Riverside 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. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
32.1%
The whole province shares one estimate: 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally in 2023 (between 31.0% and 33.2%), where the ten provinces run 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
Each figure is per person served, set against 195 town libraries in Ontario’s statistics for 2024.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
A typical week brings about 9,591 visits
What Windsor public library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
The nearest library is 2.8 km from East Riverside
In order of distance from the centre of East Riverside, 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 East Riverside
Does East Riverside have a public library?
There isn’t one in East Riverside; people there use libraries such as Windsor Public Library Forest Glade-Optimist Branch, in Forest Glade.
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).