Photo: Dennis G. Jarvis · CC BY-SA 2.0Portland Estates’s public library is Woodlawn Library
It stands 0.9 km from the centre of Portland Estates. Library statistics aren’t published openly in Nova Scotia, so there are no visit or loan figures for Portland Estates.
B−Civic life#53 of 88 in Nova ScotiaPortland Estates’s civic life grade, input by input
Portland Estates gets a B− for civic life, #53 of 88 towns graded in Nova Scotia. Two of the three civic life inputs exist for Portland Estates, enough for a grade: charities and volunteering, but not library visits.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
570 registered charities give a Halifax mailing address
There is no count for Portland Estates on its own: the charities are those of all of Halifax. It works out to 1.1 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Nova Scotia town has 1.1 and Canada’s 1.4. 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.
37.0%
Between 34.3% and 39.8% of people in Nova Scotia volunteered formally in 2023, 37.0% 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.
Portland Estates’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Portland Estates.
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 Portland Estates
Does Portland Estates have a public library?
Yes: Woodlawn Library.
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).