No public library stands in Gurnett: the closest, Hamilton Public Library - Terryberry Branch, is 3 km away
Hamilton public library serves the whole of Hamilton, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 592,000 people, Gurnett among them. Its borrowers took out 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 Gurnett’s civic life grade
With a C+, Gurnett ranks #337 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Gurnett: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial 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 Gurnett 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. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
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
Each figure is per person served, set against 195 town libraries in Ontario’s statistics for 2024.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
A typical week brings about 52,610 visits
What Hamilton public library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
The nearest library is 3 km from Gurnett
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Gurnett.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from Gurnett or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
Questions about the library and civic life in Gurnett
Does Gurnett have a public library?
Gurnett has none mapped; the closest public library is Hamilton Public Library - Terryberry Branch, in Buchanan.
How busy is Hamilton public library?
People made 2,735,720 visits in person and borrowed 2,435,516 items 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).