No public library stands in Normanhurst: the closest, Hamilton Public Library - Parkdale Branch, is 0.7 km away
The library figures on this page are Hamilton’s: Hamilton public library serves all 592,000 people of the city, Normanhurst among them. 4.1 items per person served went out on loan in 2024. The yearly visit count is an estimate: Ontario libraries count a typical week, then multiply by 52.
C+Civic life#337 of 866 in OntarioWhat Normanhurst’s civic life grade weighs
Normanhurst 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 Normanhurst.
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 Normanhurst 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%
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.
About 52,610 visits in a typical week
The year 2024 at Hamilton public library, in the library’s own counts.
The closest is 0.7 km from Normanhurst
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Normanhurst.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Visitors and people from nearby towns are in the count too; how many live in Normanhurst isn’t recorded.
Questions about the library and civic life in Normanhurst
Does Normanhurst have a public library?
None is mapped in Normanhurst; the nearest is Hamilton Public Library - Parkdale Branch, in Mcquesten West.
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).