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
The library figures on this page are Windsor’s: Windsor public library serves all 234,219 people of the city, South Central among them. Its borrowers took out 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 life#735 of 866 in OntarioWhat South Central’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in South Central grades C: #735 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. South Central 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 Central on its own: the charities are those of all of Windsor. Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.5; the median is 1.4 for Ontario towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
32.1%
Between 31.0% and 33.2% of people in Ontario volunteered formally in 2023, 32.1% at the estimate’s middle; that is one figure for the province, which ranges from 25.2% to 40.3% nationally.
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
Everything counted at Windsor public library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
The nearest library is 1.2 km from South Central
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of South Central.
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 South Central
Does South Central have a public library?
South Central has none mapped; the closest public library is Central Resource Library, in City Centre.
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).