Photo: Joey Coleman from Hamilton, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Gibson has one public library, Hamilton Public Library - Barton Branch
Gibson is served by Hamilton Public Library, the library of all of Hamilton, so the figures here are the city’s, for 592,000 people. 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 OntarioWhat Gibson’s civic life grade weighs
Gibson gets a C+ for civic life, #337 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. Gibson 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 Gibson 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. 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%
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
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
Everything counted at Hamilton Public Library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
Gibson’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Gibson.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from Gibson or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
Questions about the library and civic life in Gibson
Does Gibson have a public library?
Yes: Hamilton Public Library - Barton Branch.
How busy is Hamilton Public Library?
For 2024 it reported 2,435,516 loans and 2,735,720 in-person visits.
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).