The nearest public library to Horning is Hamilton Public Library - Ancaster Branch, 2.6 km away
The library figures on this page are Hamilton’s: Hamilton public library serves all 592,000 people of the city, Horning among them. Its borrowers took out 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 OntarioWhat Horning’s civic life grade weighs
With a C+, Horning ranks #337 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Horning: 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.
Hamilton mailing addresses hold 891 registered charities
There is no count for Horning 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. 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%
32.1% of people in Ontario did formal volunteering in 2023, a province-wide estimate between 31.0% and 33.2%; across the ten provinces the rate runs 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
Everything counted at Hamilton public library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
The nearest library is 2.6 km from Horning
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Horning.
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 Horning isn’t recorded.
Questions about the library and civic life in Horning
Does Horning have a public library?
Horning has none mapped; the closest public library is Hamilton Public Library - Ancaster Branch, in Sulphur Springs.
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).