Photo: Laslovarga · CC BY-SA 3.0Freelton Branch Library and Hamilton Public Library - Freelton Branch are Freelton’s two public libraries
Freelton is served by Hamilton Public Library, the library of all of Hamilton, so the figures here are the city’s, for 592,000 people. Loans ran to 4.1 items per person served in 2024. Ontario counts visits over one typical week and multiplies by 52, so the yearly figure is an estimate.
C+Civic life#337 of 866 in OntarioBehind Freelton’s civic life grade
Freelton gets a C+ for civic life, #337 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. A civic life grade combines library visits per resident, registered charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate, and all three exist for Freelton.
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 Freelton 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.
32.1%
Statistics Canada puts formal volunteering in Ontario at 32.1% in 2023, somewhere between 31.0% and 33.2%, for every town in the province alike; provinces range from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on all 3 measures
Each figure is per person served, set against 195 town libraries in Ontario’s statistics for 2024.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 52,610 visits in a typical week
What Hamilton Public Library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
Freelton’s 2 public libraries
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Freelton.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Visitors and people from nearby towns are in the count too; how many live in Freelton isn’t recorded.
Questions about the library and civic life in Freelton
Does Freelton have a public library?
Yes, 2: Freelton Branch Library and Hamilton Public Library - Freelton 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).