Photo: Amakuha · CC BY 4.0More 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, Glebe-Dows Lake among them. In 2024 it logged 3.4 visits for every person it serves. 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 Glebe-Dows Lake’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Glebe-Dows Lake grades C+: #498 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Glebe-Dows Lake: 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 Glebe-Dows Lake 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%
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
Everything counted at Ottawa public library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
The nearest library is 1 km from Glebe-Dows Lake
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Glebe-Dows Lake.
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 Glebe-Dows Lake
Does Glebe-Dows Lake have a public library?
The map shows none in Glebe-Dows Lake; Ottawa Public Library - Sunnyside Branch, in Old Ottawa South, is the closest.
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).