Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0Each person Ottawa Public Library serves borrows 7.6 items, more than at 91% of Ontario’s town libraries
Blackburn Hamlet 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. Visits here are a typical week’s count times 52, Ontario’s method, so read them as an estimate.
C+Civic life#498 of 866 in OntarioWhat Blackburn Hamlet’s civic life grade weighs
With a C+, Blackburn Hamlet ranks #498 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. 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 Blackburn Hamlet.
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 Blackburn Hamlet 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. 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
Measured per person served against the 195 town libraries of 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.
Blackburn Hamlet’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Blackburn Hamlet.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Statistics Canada’s 2020 facilities list and OpenStreetMap supply the points; libraries of schools, colleges and hospitals are not shown.
Questions about the library and civic life in Blackburn Hamlet
Does Blackburn Hamlet have a public library?
Yes: Ottawa Public Library - Blackburn Hamlet Branch.
How busy is Ottawa Public Library?
The 2024 totals: 3,680,508 in-person visits, 8,205,895 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).