Photo: Earl Andrew · CC BY-SA 4.0Ottawa public library lends 7.6 items per person served, more than 91% of Ontario’s town libraries
The library figures on this page are Ottawa’s: Ottawa public library serves all 1,083,550 people of the city, Carson Grove - Carson Meadows among them. Visits ran to 3.4 per person served in 2024. 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 Carson Grove - Carson Meadows’s civic life grade
With a C+, Carson Grove - Carson Meadows ranks #498 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. Carson Grove - Carson Meadows 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 are based in Ottawa, by mailing address
There is no count for Carson Grove - Carson Meadows 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. The CRA files each charity under its mailing address, so a service town collects its region’s charities and a suburb or rural municipality few.
32.1%
Statistics Canada puts formal volunteering in Ontario at 32.1% in 2023, somewhere between 31.0% and 33.2%, for every town in the province alike; provinces range 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
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
The year 2024 at Ottawa public library, in the library’s own counts.
The closest is 1.5 km from Carson Grove - Carson Meadows
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Carson Grove - Carson Meadows.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The locations come from OpenStreetMap and from Statistics Canada’s cultural facilities list of 2020, public libraries only.
Questions about the library and civic life in Carson Grove - Carson Meadows
Does Carson Grove - Carson Meadows have a public library?
No library is mapped inside Carson Grove - Carson Meadows, and the nearest one is Ottawa Public Library - St-Laurent Branch in Overbrook.
How busy is Ottawa public library?
It counted 3,680,508 in-person visits and lent 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).