Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0The nearest public library to Lakeshore is Hamilton Public Library - Saltfleet 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, Lakeshore among them. 4.1 items per person served went out on loan 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 Lakeshore’s civic life grade
With a C+, Lakeshore ranks #337 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. A civic life grade combines library visits per resident, registered charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate, and all three exist for Lakeshore.
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 Lakeshore on its own: the charities are those of all of Hamilton. Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.4; the median is 1.4 for Ontario towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
32.1%
The 2023 survey gives Ontario one volunteering rate for all its towns, 32.1% (between 31.0% and 33.2%), while provinces run from 25.2% at the low end 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 closest is 2.6 km from Lakeshore
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Lakeshore.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Lakeshore’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Lakeshore
Does Lakeshore have a public library?
Not in Lakeshore: the nearest public library is Hamilton Public Library - Saltfleet Branch, in Stoney Creek.
How busy is Hamilton public library?
It counted 2,735,720 in-person visits and lent 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).