Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0At 7.6 loans per person served, Ottawa Public Library lends more than 91% of Ontario’s town libraries
Ottawa Public Library serves the whole of Ottawa, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 1,083,550 people, Osgoode - Vernon among them. Visits ran to 3.4 per person served in 2024. Ontario counts visits over one typical week and multiplies by 52, so the yearly figure is an estimate.
C+Civic life#498 of 866 in OntarioWhat Osgoode - Vernon’s civic life grade weighs
Osgoode - Vernon gets a C+ for civic life, #498 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. Osgoode - Vernon 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 give a Ottawa mailing address
There is no count for Osgoode - Vernon 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%
Statistics Canada puts formal volunteering in Ontario at 32.1% in 2023, somewhere between 31.0% and 33.2%, for every town in the province alike; provinces range 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
Each figure is per person served, set against 195 town libraries in Ontario’s statistics for 2024.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
A typical week brings about 70,779 visits
The year 2024 at Ottawa Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
3 public libraries in Osgoode - Vernon
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Osgoode - Vernon.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Public library locations are taken from OpenStreetMap and a 2020 Statistics Canada inventory, merged where both list one place.
Questions about the library and civic life in Osgoode - Vernon
Does Osgoode - Vernon have a public library?
Yes, 3: Ottawa Public Library - Vernon Branch, Ottawa Public Library - Metcalfe Village Branch and Ottawa Public Library - Osgoode 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).