Photo: Chris Woodrich · 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, Roseland among them. 3.1 items per person served went out on loan 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 OntarioRoseland’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Roseland grades C: #735 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Roseland: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.
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 Roseland 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. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
32.1%
Volunteering here is a provincial number: 32.1% of people across Ontario in 2023, likely 31.0% to 33.2%, set in a ten-province 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
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
Everything counted at Windsor public library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
The closest is 3.6 km from Roseland
In order of distance from the centre of Roseland, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020), merged; school, college, hospital and private libraries are left out.
Questions about the library and civic life in Roseland
Does Roseland have a public library?
Not in Roseland: the nearest public library is Nikola Budimir Memorial Resource Library, in South Windsor.
How busy is Windsor public library?
Its 2024 report counts 498,732 visits in person and 720,746 items lent.
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).