Photo: cogdogblog · CC BY 2.0Nikola Budimir Memorial Resource Library draws 2.1 visits per person served, behind 80% of Ontario’s town libraries
The library figures on this page are Windsor’s: Nikola Budimir Memorial Resource Library serves all 234,219 people of the city, South Windsor among them. In 2024 it lent 3.1 items for every person it serves. 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 OntarioSouth Windsor’s civic life grade, input by input
With a C, South Windsor ranks #735 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. South Windsor 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 Windsor 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. The CRA files each charity under its mailing address, so a service town collects its region’s charities and a suburb or rural municipality few.
32.1%
The 2023 survey gives Ontario one volunteering rate for all its towns, 32.1% (between 31.0% and 33.2%), while provinces run from 25.2% at the low end 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.
About 9,591 visits in a typical week
The year 2024 at Nikola Budimir Memorial Resource Library, in the library’s own counts.
South Windsor’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of South Windsor.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The points are public libraries only, drawn from OpenStreetMap and from Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020).
Questions about the library and civic life in South Windsor
Does South Windsor have a public library?
Yes: Nikola Budimir Memorial Resource Library.
How busy is Nikola Budimir Memorial Resource Library?
The 2024 totals: 498,732 in-person visits, 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).