Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0Fewer visits per person served than 80% of Ontario’s town libraries: Windsor public library counts 2.1
Windsor public library serves the whole of Windsor, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 234,219 people, River West among them. Loans ran to 3.1 items per person served in 2024. Visits here are a typical week’s count times 52, Ontario’s method, so read them as an estimate.
CCivic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteeringBehind River West’s civic life grade
River West’s civic life grade is C. 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 River West.
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 River West on its own: the charities are those of all of Windsor. That is 1.5 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Ontario town and 1.4 across Canada. 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%
For 2023, the provincial survey estimates that 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally (likely 31.0% to 33.2%); among the ten provinces the rate goes 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.
About 9,591 visits in a typical week
The year 2024 at Windsor public library, in the library’s own counts.
2 public libraries in River West
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of River West.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Two sources make the map, OpenStreetMap and a 2020 Statistics Canada list, with academic and private libraries dropped.
Questions about the library and civic life in River West
Does River West have a public library?
Yes, 2: Bridgeview Public Library and Leddy Library.
How busy is Windsor public library?
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).