Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0Ottawa public library lends 7.6 items per person served, more than 91% of Ontario’s town libraries
Bayshore is served by Ottawa public library, the library of all of Ottawa, so the figures here are the city’s, for 1,083,550 people. In 2024 it logged 3.4 visits for every person it serves. The yearly visit count is an estimate: Ontario libraries count a typical week, then multiply by 52.
C+Civic life#498 of 866 in OntarioBehind Bayshore’s civic life grade
Civic life in Bayshore grades C+: #498 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. Bayshore 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.
1,975 registered charities give a Ottawa mailing address
There is no count for Bayshore on its own: the charities are those of all of Ottawa. It works out to 1.7 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Ontario town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
32.1%
32.1% of people in Ontario did formal volunteering in 2023, a province-wide estimate between 31.0% and 33.2%; across the ten provinces the rate runs from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on 2 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 70,779 visits
What Ottawa public library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
The nearest library is 3.4 km from Bayshore
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Bayshore.
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 Bayshore
Does Bayshore have a public library?
Not within Bayshore itself: the closest is Ottawa Public Library - Nepean Centrepointe Branch, in Centrepointe - Briargreen.
How busy is Ottawa public library?
People made 3,680,508 visits in person and borrowed 8,205,895 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).