Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0At 7.6 loans per person served, Ottawa public library lends more than 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, Westboro among them. In 2024 it logged 3.4 visits for every person it serves. Ontario counts visits over one typical week and multiplies by 52, so the yearly figure is an estimate.
C+Civic life#498 of 866 in OntarioBehind Westboro’s civic life grade
Civic life in Westboro grades C+: #498 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. Westboro 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 Westboro 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%
Across Ontario, 32.1% of people volunteered through an organization in 2023, a provincial estimate with a likely range of 31.0% to 33.2%; the lowest province sits at 25.2% and the highest at 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.
About 70,779 visits in a typical week
Everything counted at Ottawa public library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
The nearest library is 1.6 km from Westboro
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Westboro.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The locations come from OpenStreetMap and from Statistics Canada’s cultural facilities list of 2020, public libraries only.
Questions about the library and civic life in Westboro
Does Westboro have a public library?
Not within Westboro itself: the closest is Greenberg Families Library, in Laurentian.
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).