Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0Hamilton Public Library - Lynden Branch is Lynden’s public library
The library figures on this page are Hamilton’s: Hamilton Public Library serves all 592,000 people of the city, Lynden among them. In 2024 it lent 4.1 items for every person it serves. Visits here are a typical week’s count times 52, Ontario’s method, so read them as an estimate.
C+Civic life#337 of 866 in OntarioLynden’s civic life grade, input by input
With a C+, Lynden ranks #337 of 866 Ontario towns on civic life. Lynden has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
891 registered charities give a Hamilton mailing address
There is no count for Lynden 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. 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%
Formal volunteering is measured only for the province: 32.1% of Ontario’s people in 2023, give or take (31.0% to 33.2%), with the provinces between 25.2% and 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.
A typical week brings about 52,610 visits
What Hamilton Public Library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.
Lynden’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Lynden.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from Lynden or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
Questions about the library and civic life in Lynden
Does Lynden have a public library?
Yes: Hamilton Public Library - Lynden Branch.
How busy is Hamilton Public Library?
Its 2024 report counts 2,735,720 visits in person and 2,435,516 items lent.
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).