Is Carlington a good place to live?
Carlington is a west-end Ottawa neighbourhood with 16,085 residents in the 2021 census and a median age of 36.8. About 59.7% of households rent, and the mix of homes runs from single-detached houses (24.0%) to apartments in buildings of five or more storeys (29.3%). Parkland, rinks and recreation centres are spread through the area, and the downtown core is about 8.1 km away by road.
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Whether it suits you depends on what you need, so here are the facts. Residential parkland covers 9.13% of the area and tree canopy was 20.3% in 2024. The average Walk Score is 48.08, and a typical address has about 16.3 transit stops within a 600 m walk.
Population and housing figures are for the Ottawa Neighbourhood Study's 'Carlington' area.
Keep in mind. Census figures are from 2021; the drive distance is from 2026-10 routing estimates.
Sources
- ons-sqo.ca/wp-json/ons/v1/get-data/data
- ons-sqo.ca/wp-json/ons/v1/get-data/neighbourhoods
- router.project-osrm.org/route/v1/driving/-75.73494990833561,45.37529845825076;-75.70093,45.42363?overview=fals
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