Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0Eastmount’s public library is Hamilton Public Library - Concession Branch
Hamilton Public Library serves the whole of Hamilton, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 592,000 people, Eastmount among them. 4.1 items per person served went out on loan 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 OntarioBehind Eastmount’s civic life grade
Eastmount gets a C+ for civic life, #337 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. Eastmount 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.
Hamilton mailing addresses hold 891 registered charities
There is no count for Eastmount 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.
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.
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.
Eastmount’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Eastmount.
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 Eastmount itself.
Questions about the library and civic life in Eastmount
Does Eastmount have a public library?
Yes: Hamilton Public Library - Concession Branch.
How busy is Hamilton Public Library?
The 2024 totals: 2,735,720 in-person visits, 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).