Photo: Ross Dunn · CC BY-SA 2.0Ottawa 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, Vanier North among them. It counted 3.4 in-person visits per person served in 2024. The yearly visit count is an estimate: Ontario libraries count a typical week, then multiply by 52.
C+Civic life#498 of 866 in OntarioVanier North’s civic life grade, input by input
With a C+, Vanier North ranks #498 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. A civic life grade combines library visits per resident, registered charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate, and all three exist for Vanier North.
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 Vanier North 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. 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%
One figure covers all of Ontario: in 2023, 32.1% of its people gave time to an organization (between 31.0% and 33.2%), against a provincial 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
The year 2024 at Ottawa Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Vanier North’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Vanier North.
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 Vanier North
Does Vanier North have a public library?
Yes: Ottawa Public Library - Vanier Branch.
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).