Photo: P199 · Public domainEach person Ottawa public library serves borrows 7.6 items, more than at 91% of Ontario’s town libraries
Cumberland 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. Visits here are a typical week’s count times 52, Ontario’s method, so read them as an estimate.
C+Civic life#498 of 866 in OntarioWhat Cumberland’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Cumberland grades C+: #498 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. Cumberland 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 Cumberland 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%
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
What Ottawa public library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
The nearest library is 4 km from Cumberland
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Cumberland.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020), merged; school, college, hospital and private libraries are left out.
Questions about the library and civic life in Cumberland
Does Cumberland have a public library?
The map shows none in Cumberland; Bibliothèque Manise-Morin, in Bassin-de-la-Lièvre, is the closest.
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).