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Libraries · Marritt

The nearest public library to Marritt is Hamilton Public Library - Ancaster Branch, 2.3 km away

Marritt is served by Hamilton public library, the library of all of Hamilton, so the figures here are the city’s, for 592,000 people. In 2024 it lent 4.1 items for every person it serves. 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 Ontario
Visits a year
2,735,720
4.6 per person served
Borrowed a year
2,435,516
4.1 per person served
Cardholders
31%
185,395 cards
Charities
891
1.4 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

Behind Marritt’s civic life grade

Marritt gets a C+ for civic life, #337 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. 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 Marritt.

C+
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Marritt’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

891 registered charities give a Hamilton mailing address

There is no count for Marritt 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.

Volunteering

32.1%

Volunteering here is a provincial number: 32.1% of people across Ontario in 2023, likely 31.0% to 33.2%, set in a ten-province range of 25.2% to 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

How it compares

Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on all 3 measures

Measured per person served against the 195 town libraries of Ontario’s 2024 statistics.

Visits per person served 4.6 visits · typical 3.4Higher than 74%
Loans per person served 4.1 items · typical 4Higher than 55%
Cardholders 31% of people served · typical 27%Higher than 64%
Fewer per personMore per person
Who is compared

Town libraries only; regional systems left out.

A year at the library

About 52,610 visits in a typical week

What Hamilton public library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.

2,735,720
in-person visits
4.6 per person served
2,435,516
items borrowed
4.1 per person served
185,395
cardholders
31% of people served
Every day6,673items borrowed
592,000 people served
Nearest libraries

The nearest library is 2.3 km from Marritt

In order of distance from the centre of Marritt, as the crow flies.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Visits count everyone. A library’s visits include people from neighbouring towns and visitors; the statistics don’t say how many come from Marritt itself.

Questions about the library and civic life in Marritt

Does Marritt have a public library?

Not within Marritt itself: the closest is Hamilton Public Library - Ancaster Branch, in Sulphur Springs.

How busy is Hamilton public library?

For 2024 it reported 2,435,516 loans and 2,735,720 in-person visits.

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).