More loans per person served than 91% of Ontario’s town libraries: Ottawa public library lends 7.6
Crestview-Tanglewood 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 OntarioWhat Crestview-Tanglewood’s civic life grade weighs
Crestview-Tanglewood gets a C+ for civic life, #498 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. A civic life grade combines library visits per resident, registered charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate, and all three exist for Crestview-Tanglewood.
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 Crestview-Tanglewood on its own: the charities are those of all of Ottawa. That is 1.7 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Ontario town and 1.4 across Canada. 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
Measured per person served against the 195 town libraries of Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
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.
The nearest library is 1.8 km from Crestview-Tanglewood
In order of distance from the centre of Crestview-Tanglewood, as the crow flies.
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 Crestview-Tanglewood
Does Crestview-Tanglewood have a public library?
There isn’t one in Crestview-Tanglewood; people there use libraries such as Ottawa Public Library - Nepean Centrepointe Branch, in Centrepointe - Briargreen.
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).