Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0More loans per person served than 91% of Ontario’s town libraries: Ottawa public library lends 7.6
Ottawa public library serves the whole of Ottawa, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 1,083,550 people, Navan - Sarsfield 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 Navan - Sarsfield’s civic life grade weighs
With a C+, Navan - Sarsfield ranks #498 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Navan - Sarsfield: 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 Navan - Sarsfield 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%
The 2023 survey gives Ontario one volunteering rate for all its towns, 32.1% (between 31.0% and 33.2%), while provinces run from 25.2% at the low end 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.
About 70,779 visits in a typical week
The year 2024 at Ottawa public library, in the library’s own counts.
The nearest library is 8.4 km from Navan - Sarsfield
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Navan - Sarsfield.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The locations come from OpenStreetMap and from Statistics Canada’s cultural facilities list of 2020, public libraries only.
Questions about the library and civic life in Navan - Sarsfield
Does Navan - Sarsfield have a public library?
Not within Navan - Sarsfield itself: the closest is Ottawa Public Library - Cumberland Branch, in Fallingbrook.
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).