Eastdale has no public library of its own; the nearest is Hamilton Public Library - Saltfleet Branch, 1.1 km away
The library figures on this page are Hamilton’s: Hamilton public library serves all 592,000 people of the city, Eastdale among them. In 2024 it lent 4.1 items for every person it serves. The yearly visit count is an estimate: Ontario libraries count a typical week, then multiply by 52.
C+Civic life#337 of 866 in OntarioBehind Eastdale’s civic life grade
Civic life in Eastdale grades C+: #337 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. Eastdale 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 Eastdale on its own: the charities are those of all of Hamilton. It works out to 1.4 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Ontario town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. 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%
No town-level count exists, so the page uses Ontario as a whole: 32.1% volunteered formally in 2023, between 31.0% and 33.2%, while the provinces span 25.2% to 40.3%.
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.
About 52,610 visits in a typical week
The year 2024 at Hamilton public library, in the library’s own counts.
The nearest library is 1.1 km from Eastdale
In order of distance from the centre of Eastdale, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A library’s visits include people from neighbouring towns and visitors; the statistics don’t say how many come from Eastdale itself.
Questions about the library and civic life in Eastdale
Does Eastdale have a public library?
The map shows none in Eastdale; Hamilton Public Library - Saltfleet Branch, in Stoney Creek, is the closest.
How busy is Hamilton public library?
2,735,720 in-person visits and 2,435,516 items borrowed 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).