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, Chapel Hill South among them. Visits ran to 3.4 per person served 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 OntarioBehind Chapel Hill South’s civic life grade
Chapel Hill South gets a C+ for civic life, #498 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Chapel Hill South: 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.
Ottawa mailing addresses hold 1,975 registered charities
There is no count for Chapel Hill South 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.
A typical week brings about 70,779 visits
The year 2024 at Ottawa public library, in the library’s own counts.
The closest is 2.1 km from Chapel Hill South
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Chapel Hill South.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Only public libraries are mapped: OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, with school and university libraries removed.
Questions about the library and civic life in Chapel Hill South
Does Chapel Hill South have a public library?
No, but Ottawa Public Library - Orléans Branch in Orleans Village - Chateauneuf is the nearest public library to Chapel Hill South.
How busy is Ottawa public library?
In 2024 it logged 3,680,508 in-person visits and 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).