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Libraries · Stittsville North

Ottawa public library lends 7.6 items per person served, 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, Stittsville North among them. In 2024 it logged 3.4 visits for every person it serves. The yearly visit count is an estimate: Ontario libraries count a typical week, then multiply by 52.

C+Civic life#498 of 866 in Ontario
Visits a year
3,680,508
3.4 per person served
Borrowed a year
8,205,895
7.6 per person served
Cardholders
30%
328,464 cards
Charities
1,975
1.7 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

What Stittsville North’s civic life grade weighs

With a C+, Stittsville North ranks #498 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. Stittsville North has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.

C+
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Stittsville North’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

1,975 registered charities are based in Ottawa, by mailing address

There is no count for Stittsville North 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. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.

Volunteering

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.

How it compares

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.

Visits per person served 3.4 visits · typical 3.4Lower than 51%
Loans per person served 7.6 items · typical 4Top 10%
Cardholders 30% of people served · typical 27%Higher than 61%
Fewer per personMore per person
Who is compared

Town libraries only; regional systems left out.

A year at the library

About 70,779 visits in a typical week

What Ottawa public library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.

3,680,508
in-person visits
3.4 per person served
8,205,895
items borrowed
7.6 per person served
328,464
cardholders
30% of people served
Every day22,482items borrowed
1,083,550 people served
Nearest libraries

The nearest library is 2.8 km from Stittsville North

In order of distance from the centre of Stittsville North, as the crow flies.

How to read these numbers

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 Stittsville North

Does Stittsville North have a public library?

The map shows none in Stittsville North; Ottawa Public Library - Stittsville Branch, in Stittsville, is the closest.

How busy is Ottawa public library?

The 2024 totals: 3,680,508 in-person visits, 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).