The nearest public library to Lampman is Hamilton Public Library - Ancaster Branch, 3.8 km away
Lampman is served by Hamilton public library, the library of all of Hamilton, so the figures here are the city’s, for 592,000 people. 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 OntarioWhat Lampman’s civic life grade weighs
Lampman gets a C+ for civic life, #337 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Lampman: 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 Lampman 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%
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.
The nearest library is 3.8 km from Lampman
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Lampman.
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 Lampman; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in Lampman
Does Lampman have a public library?
There isn’t one in Lampman; people there use libraries such as 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).