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Libraries · Corman

The nearest public library to Corman is Hamilton Public Library - Red Hill Branch, 0.8 km away

Corman 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. 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 Ontario
Visits a year
2,735,720
4.6 per person served
Borrowed a year
2,435,516
4.1 per person served
Cardholders
31%
185,395 cards
Charities
891
1.4 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

Behind Corman’s civic life grade

With a C+, Corman ranks #337 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Corman: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.

C+
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Corman’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

891 registered charities give a Hamilton mailing address

There is no count for Corman 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. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.

Volunteering

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.

How it compares

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.

Visits per person served 4.6 visits · typical 3.4Higher than 74%
Loans per person served 4.1 items · typical 4Higher than 55%
Cardholders 31% of people served · typical 27%Higher than 64%
Fewer per personMore per person
Who is compared

Town libraries only; regional systems left out.

A year at the library

About 52,610 visits in a typical week

Everything counted at Hamilton public library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.

2,735,720
in-person visits
4.6 per person served
2,435,516
items borrowed
4.1 per person served
185,395
cardholders
31% of people served
Every day6,673items borrowed
592,000 people served
Nearest libraries

The nearest library is 0.8 km from Corman

Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Corman.

How to read these numbers

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 Corman; the figure can’t tell them apart.

Questions about the library and civic life in Corman

Does Corman have a public library?

Corman has none mapped; the closest public library is Hamilton Public Library - Red Hill Branch, in Kentley.

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).