No public library stands in Garner: the closest, Hamilton Public Library - Ancaster Branch, is 1.2 km away
The library figures on this page are Hamilton’s: Hamilton public library serves all 592,000 people of the city, Garner among them. Its borrowers took out 4.1 items per person served in 2024. The yearly visit count is an estimate: Ontario libraries count a typical week, then multiply by 52.
C+Civic life#337 of 866 in OntarioWhat Garner’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Garner grades C+: #337 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. Garner 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 Garner 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. 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%
Formal volunteering is measured only for the province: 32.1% of Ontario’s people in 2023, give or take (31.0% to 33.2%), with the provinces between 25.2% and 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on all 3 measures
Per person served, against the 195 town libraries in Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
A typical week brings about 52,610 visits
The year 2024 at Hamilton public library, in the library’s own counts.
The nearest library is 1.2 km from Garner
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Garner.
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 Garner itself.
Questions about the library and civic life in Garner
Does Garner have a public library?
Garner has none mapped; the closest public library is Hamilton Public Library - Ancaster Branch, in Sulphur Springs.
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).