The nearest public library to Hampton Heights is Hamilton Public Library - Sherwood Branch, 1 km away
Hampton Heights 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. 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 Hampton Heights’s civic life grade
Civic life in Hampton Heights grades C+: #337 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Hampton Heights: 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 Hampton Heights on its own: the charities are those of all of Hamilton. It works out to 1.4 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Ontario town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
32.1%
Volunteering here is a provincial number: 32.1% of people across Ontario in 2023, likely 31.0% to 33.2%, set in a ten-province range of 25.2% to 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 closest is 1 km from Hampton Heights
In order of distance from the centre of Hampton Heights, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A busy library may owe some of its visits to people who live outside Hampton Heights; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in Hampton Heights
Does Hampton Heights have a public library?
No library is mapped inside Hampton Heights, and the nearest one is Hamilton Public Library - Sherwood Branch in Sherwood.
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).