Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0Central Business Dis has one public library, Hamilton Public Library - Dundas Branch
Hamilton Public Library serves the whole of Hamilton, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 592,000 people, Central Business Dis among them. 4.1 items per person served went out on loan in 2024. Visits here are a typical week’s count times 52, Ontario’s method, so read them as an estimate.
C+Civic life#337 of 866 in OntarioBehind Central Business Dis’s civic life grade
With a C+, Central Business Dis ranks #337 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. Central Business Dis 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.
891 registered charities are based in Hamilton, by mailing address
There is no count for Central Business Dis on its own: the charities are those of all of Hamilton. That is 1.4 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Ontario town and 1.4 across Canada. 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%
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
Per person served, against the 195 town libraries in 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.
Central Business Dis’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Central Business Dis.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A busy library may owe some of its visits to people who live outside Central Business Dis; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in Central Business Dis
Does Central Business Dis have a public library?
Yes: Hamilton Public Library - Dundas Branch.
How busy is Hamilton Public Library?
The 2024 totals: 2,735,720 in-person visits, 2,435,516 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).