Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0No public library stands in Spring Valley: the closest, Hamilton Public Library - Ancaster Branch, is 2.9 km away
Hamilton public library serves the whole of Hamilton, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 592,000 people, Spring Valley among them. 4.1 items per person served went out on loan in 2024. 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 OntarioSpring Valley’s civic life grade, input by input
Spring Valley gets a C+ for civic life, #337 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. Spring Valley 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.
Hamilton mailing addresses hold 891 registered charities
There is no count for Spring Valley 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. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
32.1%
The whole province shares one estimate: 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally in 2023 (between 31.0% and 33.2%), where the ten provinces run 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
Everything counted at Hamilton public library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
The closest is 2.9 km from Spring Valley
In order of distance from the centre of Spring Valley, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Spring Valley’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Spring Valley
Does Spring Valley have a public library?
Not in Spring Valley: the nearest public library is 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).