Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0Kirkendall North has one public library, Hamilton Public Library - Locke Branch
Kirkendall North 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 OntarioBehind Kirkendall North’s civic life grade
With a C+, Kirkendall North ranks #337 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Kirkendall North: 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 Kirkendall North 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%
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
What Hamilton Public Library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
Kirkendall North’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Kirkendall North.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Kirkendall North’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Kirkendall North
Does Kirkendall North have a public library?
Yes: Hamilton Public Library - Locke Branch.
How busy is Hamilton Public Library?
2,735,720 in-person visits and 2,435,516 items borrowed 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).