The nearest public library to Crown Point West is Hamilton Public Library - Kenilworth Branch, 1.2 km away
Hamilton public library serves the whole of Hamilton, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 592,000 people, Crown Point West among them. Loans ran to 4.1 items per person served in 2024. 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 OntarioCrown Point West’s civic life grade, input by input
With a C+, Crown Point West ranks #337 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. Crown Point West 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 give a Hamilton mailing address
There is no count for Crown Point West 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. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
32.1%
Between 31.0% and 33.2% of people in Ontario volunteered formally in 2023, 32.1% at the estimate’s middle; that is one figure for the province, which ranges from 25.2% to 40.3% nationally.
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.
A typical week brings about 52,610 visits
What Hamilton public library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
The closest is 1.2 km from Crown Point West
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Crown Point West.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from Crown Point West or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
Questions about the library and civic life in Crown Point West
Does Crown Point West have a public library?
No, but Hamilton Public Library - Kenilworth Branch in Crown Point East is the nearest public library to Crown Point West.
How busy is Hamilton public library?
People made 2,735,720 visits in person and borrowed 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).