More loans per person served than 91% of Ontario’s town libraries: Ottawa public library lends 7.6
The library figures on this page are Ottawa’s: Ottawa public library serves all 1,083,550 people of the city, Bells Corners West among them. In 2024 it logged 3.4 visits 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.
C+Civic life#498 of 866 in OntarioBells Corners West’s civic life grade, input by input
Bells Corners West gets a C+ for civic life, #498 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. A civic life grade combines library visits per resident, registered charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate, and all three exist for Bells Corners West.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Ottawa mailing addresses hold 1,975 registered charities
There is no count for Bells Corners West on its own: the charities are those of all of Ottawa. Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.7; the median is 1.4 for Ontario towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.
32.1%
Formal volunteering is measured only for the province: 32.1% of Ontario’s people in 2023, give or take (31.0% to 33.2%), with the provinces between 25.2% and 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.
About 70,779 visits in a typical week
What Ottawa public library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
The nearest library is 1 km from Bells Corners West
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Bells Corners West.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020), merged; school, college, hospital and private libraries are left out.
Questions about the library and civic life in Bells Corners West
Does Bells Corners West have a public library?
The map shows none in Bells Corners West; Ottawa Public Library - Centennial Branch, in Bells Corners East, is the closest.
How busy is Ottawa public library?
For 2024 it reported 8,205,895 loans and 3,680,508 in-person visits.
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).