Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.03 public library branches serve Colborne
The library figures on this page are Hamilton’s: Hamilton Public Library serves all 592,000 people of the city, Colborne among them. In 2024 it lent 4.1 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.
C+Civic life#337 of 866 in OntarioColborne’s civic life grade, input by input
Colborne gets a C+ for civic life, #337 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Colborne: 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 Colborne 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. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
32.1%
The whole province shares one estimate: 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally in 2023 (between 31.0% and 33.2%), where the ten provinces run 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.
Colborne’s 3 public libraries
In order of distance from the centre of Colborne, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from Colborne or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
Questions about the library and civic life in Colborne
Does Colborne have a public library?
Yes, 3: Greensville Branch, Greensville Library and Millgrove Branch Library.
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).