Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0Fewer visits per person served than 80% of Ontario’s town libraries: Fontainbleau Library counts 2.1
Fontainebleau is served by Fontainbleau Library, the library of all of Windsor, so the figures here are the city’s, for 234,219 people. In 2024 it lent 3.1 items for every person it serves. Visits here are a typical week’s count times 52, Ontario’s method, so read them as an estimate.
CCivic life#735 of 866 in OntarioWhat Fontainebleau’s civic life grade weighs
Fontainebleau gets a C for civic life, #735 of 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 Fontainebleau.
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 Fontainebleau 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. 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%
32.1% of people in Ontario did formal volunteering in 2023, a province-wide estimate between 31.0% and 33.2%; across the ten provinces the rate runs 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.
About 9,591 visits in a typical week
What Fontainbleau Library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
Fontainebleau’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Fontainebleau.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Statistics Canada’s 2020 facilities list and OpenStreetMap supply the points; libraries of schools, colleges and hospitals are not shown.
Questions about the library and civic life in Fontainebleau
Does Fontainebleau have a public library?
Yes: Fontainbleau Library.
How busy is Fontainbleau Library?
The 2024 totals: 498,732 in-person visits, 720,746 loans.
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).