Photo: Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0At 2.1 visits per person served, Windsor public library is quieter than 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, Sandwich among them. In 2024 it lent 3.1 items for every person it serves. The yearly visit count is an estimate: Ontario libraries count a typical week, then multiply by 52.
CCivic life#735 of 866 in OntarioSandwich’s civic life grade, input by input
With a C, Sandwich ranks #735 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Sandwich: 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 give a Windsor mailing address
There is no count for Sandwich on its own: the charities are those of all of Windsor. It works out to 1.5 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Ontario town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. 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
Measured per person served against the 195 town libraries of Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
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.
Sandwich’s 2 public libraries
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Sandwich.
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 Sandwich
Does Sandwich have a public library?
Yes, 2: Windsor Public Library John Muir Branch and Windsor Public Library Local History Branch.
How busy is Windsor public library?
People made 498,732 visits in person and borrowed 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).