Photo: Lfroms · CC BY-SA 3.0More loans per person served than 91% of Ontario’s town libraries: Ottawa public library lends 7.6
Riverside South - Leitrim 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. Visits ran to 3.4 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 OntarioRiverside South - Leitrim’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Riverside South - Leitrim grades C+: #498 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. Riverside South - Leitrim 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 are based in Ottawa, by mailing address
There is no count for Riverside South - Leitrim 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%
Volunteering here is a provincial number: 32.1% of people across Ontario in 2023, likely 31.0% to 33.2%, set in a ten-province range of 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
Everything counted at Ottawa public library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
The closest is 5.1 km from Riverside South - Leitrim
In order of distance from the centre of Riverside South - Leitrim, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Locations merge two sources, OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, without school, college or hospital libraries.
Questions about the library and civic life in Riverside South - Leitrim
Does Riverside South - Leitrim have a public library?
No, but Ottawa Public Library - Manotick Branch in Manotick is the nearest public library to Riverside South - Leitrim.
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).