Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0Riverside Library logs 2.1 visits per person served, fewer than 80% of Ontario’s town libraries
Riverside Library serves the whole of Windsor, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 234,219 people, Riverside 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 OntarioBehind Riverside’s civic life grade
Civic life in Riverside grades C: #735 of the 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 Riverside.
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 Riverside 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. 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%
One figure covers all of Ontario: in 2023, 32.1% of its people gave time to an organization (between 31.0% and 33.2%), against a provincial range of 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.
A typical week brings about 9,591 visits
What Riverside Library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
Riverside’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Riverside.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Only public libraries are mapped: OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, with school and university libraries removed.
Questions about the library and civic life in Riverside
Does Riverside have a public library?
Yes: Riverside Library.
How busy is Riverside Library?
Over 2024: 720,746 items out on loan, 498,732 visits through the door.
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).