Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainAt 2.1 visits per person served, Windsor Public Library Forest Glade-Optimist Branch is quieter than 80% of Ontario’s town libraries
Forest Glade is served by Windsor Public Library Forest Glade-Optimist Branch, the library of all of Windsor, so the figures here are the city’s, for 234,219 people. 3.1 items per person served went out on loan in 2024. The yearly visit count is an estimate: Ontario libraries count a typical week, then multiply by 52.
CCivic life#735 of 866 in OntarioForest Glade’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Forest Glade grades C: #735 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. Forest Glade 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.
414 registered charities give a Windsor mailing address
There is no count for Forest Glade 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
Per person served, against the 195 town libraries in Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 9,591 visits in a typical week
The year 2024 at Windsor Public Library Forest Glade-Optimist Branch, in the library’s own counts.
Forest Glade’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Forest Glade, 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 Forest Glade
Does Forest Glade have a public library?
Yes: Windsor Public Library Forest Glade-Optimist Branch.
How busy is Windsor Public Library Forest Glade-Optimist Branch?
It counted 498,732 in-person visits and lent 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).