Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainBinbrook’s public library is Hamilton Public Library - Binbrook Branch
Hamilton Public Library serves the whole of Hamilton, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 592,000 people, Binbrook among them. Its borrowers took out 4.1 items per person served in 2024. Ontario counts visits over one typical week and multiplies by 52, so the yearly figure is an estimate.
C+Civic life#337 of 866 in OntarioBinbrook’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Binbrook grades C+: #337 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. 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 Binbrook.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
891 registered charities are based in Hamilton, by mailing address
There is no count for Binbrook on its own: the charities are those of all of Hamilton. Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.4; the median is 1.4 for Ontario towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. 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%
For 2023, the provincial survey estimates that 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally (likely 31.0% to 33.2%); among the ten provinces the rate goes from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on all 3 measures
Measured per person served against the 195 town libraries of Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 52,610 visits in a typical week
The year 2024 at Hamilton Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Binbrook’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Binbrook.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from Binbrook or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
Questions about the library and civic life in Binbrook
Does Binbrook have a public library?
Yes: Hamilton Public Library - Binbrook Branch.
How busy is Hamilton Public Library?
It counted 2,735,720 in-person visits and lent 2,435,516 items in 2024.
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).