Blakeley has no public library of its own; the nearest is Hamilton Public Library - Concession Branch, 1.3 km away
Blakeley is served by Hamilton public library, the library of all of Hamilton, so the figures here are the city’s, for 592,000 people. Its borrowers took out 4.1 items 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#337 of 866 in OntarioBlakeley’s civic life grade, input by input
Blakeley gets a C+ for civic life, #337 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Blakeley: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.
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 Blakeley on its own: the charities are those of all of Hamilton. It works out to 1.4 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Ontario town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. 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%
32.1% of people in Ontario did formal volunteering in 2023, a province-wide estimate between 31.0% and 33.2%; across the ten provinces the rate runs 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
Everything counted at Hamilton public library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
The nearest library is 1.3 km from Blakeley
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Blakeley.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Tourists, commuters and neighbours all add to the visits, and nobody records which of them live in Blakeley.
Questions about the library and civic life in Blakeley
Does Blakeley have a public library?
There isn’t one in Blakeley; people there use libraries such as Hamilton Public Library - Concession Branch, in Eastmount.
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).