Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0More loans per person served than 91% of Ontario’s town libraries: Ottawa Public Library lends 7.6
Old Ottawa South 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 OntarioOld Ottawa South’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Old Ottawa South grades C+: #498 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Old Ottawa South: 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.
1,975 registered charities are based in Ottawa, by mailing address
There is no count for Old Ottawa South 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. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
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.
A typical week brings about 70,779 visits
Everything counted at Ottawa Public Library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
Old Ottawa South’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Old Ottawa South, 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 Old Ottawa South
Does Old Ottawa South have a public library?
Yes: Ottawa Public Library - Sunnyside Branch.
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).