Photo: Earl Andrew · CC BY-SA 4.0More loans per person served than 91% of Ontario’s town libraries: Ottawa Public Library lends 7.6
Elmvale - Canterbury 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. It counted 3.4 in-person visits 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 Elmvale - Canterbury’s civic life grade
With a C+, Elmvale - Canterbury ranks #498 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. 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 Elmvale - Canterbury.
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 Elmvale - Canterbury 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. 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%
The whole province shares one estimate: 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally in 2023 (between 31.0% and 33.2%), where the ten provinces run 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
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
What Ottawa Public Library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
Elmvale - Canterbury’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Elmvale - Canterbury, 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 Elmvale - Canterbury
Does Elmvale - Canterbury have a public library?
Yes: Ottawa Public Library - Elmvale Acres Branch.
How busy is Ottawa Public Library?
3,680,508 in-person visits and 8,205,895 items borrowed 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).