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Libraries · Crown Point East

Crown Point East has one public library, Hamilton Public Library - Kenilworth Branch

Hamilton Public Library serves the whole of Hamilton, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 592,000 people, Crown Point East 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 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
Libraries
1
Charities
891
1.4 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

What Crown Point East’s civic life grade weighs

With a C+, Crown Point East ranks #337 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. Crown Point East has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.

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

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

891 registered charities are based in Hamilton, by mailing address

There is no count for Crown Point East 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.

Volunteering

32.1%

Volunteering here is a provincial number: 32.1% of people across Ontario in 2023, likely 31.0% to 33.2%, set in a ten-province range of 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

Measured per person served against the 195 town libraries of 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

A typical week brings about 52,610 visits

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
The libraries

Crown Point East’s public library

In order of distance from the centre of Crown Point East, as the crow flies.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Crown Point East’s residents and everyone else who walks in.

Questions about the library and civic life in Crown Point East

Does Crown Point East have a public library?

Yes: Hamilton Public Library - Kenilworth Branch.

How busy is Hamilton Public Library?

In 2024 it logged 2,735,720 in-person visits and 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).