Photo: Chris Woodrich · CC BY-SA 4.0Fewer visits per person served than 80% of Ontario’s town libraries: Windsor public library counts 2.1
South Cameron is served by Windsor public library, 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. Visits here are a typical week’s count times 52, Ontario’s method, so read them as an estimate.
CCivic life#735 of 866 in OntarioBehind South Cameron’s civic life grade
Civic life in South Cameron grades C: #735 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. South Cameron 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 are based in Windsor, by mailing address
There is no count for South Cameron 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%
No town-level count exists, so the page uses Ontario as a whole: 32.1% volunteered formally in 2023, between 31.0% and 33.2%, while the provinces span 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
The year 2024 at Windsor public library, in the library’s own counts.
The closest is 1.6 km from South Cameron
In order of distance from the centre of South Cameron, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. A library listed by both OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada appears once; campus, school and private ones are left off.
Questions about the library and civic life in South Cameron
Does South Cameron have a public library?
None is mapped in South Cameron; the nearest is Bridgeview Public Library, in River West.
How busy is Windsor public library?
In 2024 it logged 498,732 in-person visits and 720,746 loans.
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).