Each person Ottawa public library serves borrows 7.6 items, more than at 91% of Ontario’s town libraries
The library figures on this page are Ottawa’s: Ottawa public library serves all 1,083,550 people of the city, Queensway Terrace North among them. In 2024 it logged 3.4 visits for every person it serves. Visits here are a typical week’s count times 52, Ontario’s method, so read them as an estimate.
C+Civic life#498 of 866 in OntarioBehind Queensway Terrace North’s civic life grade
Civic life in Queensway Terrace North grades C+: #498 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. Queensway Terrace North 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 Queensway Terrace North 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 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
Per person served, against the 195 town libraries in 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 1.9 km from Queensway Terrace North
In order of distance from the centre of Queensway Terrace North, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. A library listed by both OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada appears once; campus, school and private ones are left off.
Questions about the library and civic life in Queensway Terrace North
Does Queensway Terrace North have a public library?
The map shows none in Queensway Terrace North; Ottawa Public Library - Carlingwood Branch, in Laurentian, is the closest.
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).