Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Ottawa Public Library lends 7.6 items per person served, more than 91% of Ontario’s town libraries
Carp 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 Carp’s civic life grade
Carp gets a C+ for civic life, #498 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Carp: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial 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 Carp 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
Each figure is per person served, set against 195 town libraries in Ontario’s statistics for 2024.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 70,779 visits in a typical week
Everything counted at Ottawa Public Library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
Carp’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Carp.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Locations merge two sources, OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, without school, college or hospital libraries.
Questions about the library and civic life in Carp
Does Carp have a public library?
Yes: Ottawa Public Library - Carp 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).