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Libraries · Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant

More loans per person served than 91% of Ontario’s town libraries: Ottawa public library lends 7.6

Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant 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. 3.4 visits per person served came through its doors in 2024. 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 Ontario
Visits a year
3,680,508
3.4 per person served
Borrowed a year
8,205,895
7.6 per person served
Cardholders
30%
328,464 cards
Charities
1,975
1.7 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant’s civic life grade, input by input

With a C+, Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant ranks #498 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.

C+
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

Ottawa mailing addresses hold 1,975 registered charities

There is no count for Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant 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.

Volunteering

32.1%

No town-level count exists, so the page uses Ontario as a whole: 32.1% volunteered formally in 2023, between 31.0% and 33.2%, while the provinces span 25.2% to 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

How it compares

Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on 2 of 3 measures

Each figure is per person served, set against 195 town libraries in Ontario’s statistics for 2024.

Visits per person served 3.4 visits · typical 3.4Lower than 51%
Loans per person served 7.6 items · typical 4Top 10%
Cardholders 30% of people served · typical 27%Higher than 61%
Fewer per personMore per person
Who is compared

Town libraries only; regional systems left out.

A year at the library

A typical week brings about 70,779 visits

What Ottawa public library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.

3,680,508
in-person visits
3.4 per person served
8,205,895
items borrowed
7.6 per person served
328,464
cardholders
30% of people served
Every day22,482items borrowed
1,083,550 people served
Nearest libraries

The nearest library is 4.5 km from Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant

In order of distance from the centre of Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant, as the crow flies.

How to read these numbers

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 Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant

Does Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant have a public library?

Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant has none mapped; the closest public library is Ottawa Public Library - Beaverbrook Branch, in Beaverbrook.

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).