At 7.6 loans per person served, Ottawa public library lends more than 91% of Ontario’s town libraries
Chapman Mills 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. Ontario counts visits over one typical week and multiplies by 52, so the yearly figure is an estimate.
C+Civic life#498 of 866 in OntarioChapman Mills’s civic life grade, input by input
Chapman Mills gets a C+ for civic life, #498 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Chapman Mills: 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 are based in Ottawa, by mailing address
There is no count for Chapman Mills 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. 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%
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.
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.
A typical week brings about 70,779 visits
Everything counted at Ottawa public library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
The nearest library is 3.1 km from Chapman Mills
In order of distance from the centre of Chapman Mills, as the crow flies.
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 Chapman Mills
Does Chapman Mills have a public library?
There isn’t one in Chapman Mills; people there use libraries such as Ottawa Public Library - Ruth E. Dickinson Branch, in Old Barrhaven West.
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).