Photo: SimonP at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0More loans per person served than 91% of Ontario’s town libraries: Ottawa public library lends 7.6
Sandy Hill 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. 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 lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteeringBehind Sandy Hill’s civic life grade
Sandy Hill gets a C+ for civic life. Sandy Hill 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.
Ottawa mailing addresses hold 1,975 registered charities
There is no count for Sandy Hill 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%
Between 31.0% and 33.2% of people in Ontario volunteered formally in 2023, 32.1% at the estimate’s middle; that is one figure for the province, which ranges from 25.2% to 40.3% nationally.
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
What Ottawa public library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
The nearest library is 0.6 km from Sandy Hill
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Sandy Hill.
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 Sandy Hill
Does Sandy Hill have a public library?
Not within Sandy Hill itself: the closest is Ottawa Public Library - Rideau Branch, in Lowertown East.
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).