Photo: Glenn Ford · CC BY-SA 3.0Petawawa Public Library is Petawawa’s public library
Petawawa Public Library serves 18,160 people from a single building. In 2024 it lent 5.3 items 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.
CCivic life#716 of 866 in OntarioPetawawa’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Petawawa grades C: #716 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. Petawawa 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.
Petawawa mailing addresses hold 17 registered charities
That is 0.9 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Ontario town and 1.4 across Canada. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.
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
Each figure is per person served, set against 195 town libraries in Ontario’s statistics for 2024.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 1,307 visits in a typical week
The year 2024 at Petawawa Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Petawawa’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Petawawa.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The map joins OpenStreetMap with Statistics Canada’s 2020 cultural facilities list and leaves out school, college and private libraries.
Questions about the library and civic life in Petawawa
Does Petawawa have a public library?
Yes: Petawawa Public Library.
How busy is Petawawa Public Library?
For 2024 it reported 96,004 loans and 67,964 in-person visits.
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).