No public library stands in Red Hill: the closest, Hamilton Public Library - Red Hill Branch, is 2.4 km away
Hamilton public library serves the whole of Hamilton, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 592,000 people, Red Hill 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 OntarioBehind Red Hill’s civic life grade
Red Hill gets a C+ for civic life, #337 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Red Hill: 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.
891 registered charities give a Hamilton mailing address
There is no count for Red Hill 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%
In 2023, 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally: one estimate for the whole province, likely between 31.0% and 33.2%, in a range of 25.2% to 40.3% across the ten provinces.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on all 3 measures
Per person served, against the 195 town libraries in Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
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 nearest library is 2.4 km from Red Hill
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Red Hill.
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 Red Hill; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in Red Hill
Does Red Hill have a public library?
The map shows none in Red Hill; Hamilton Public Library - Red Hill Branch, in Kentley, is the closest.
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).