No public library stands in St. Clair: the closest, Hamilton Public Library - Concession 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, St. Clair among them. In 2024 it lent 4.1 items for every person it serves. Ontario counts visits over one typical week and multiplies by 52, so the yearly figure is an estimate.
C+Civic life#337 of 866 in OntarioSt. Clair’s civic life grade, input by input
St. Clair gets a C+ for civic life, #337 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for St. Clair: 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 are based in Hamilton, by mailing address
There is no count for St. Clair 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.
32.1%
32.1% of people in Ontario did formal volunteering in 2023, a province-wide estimate between 31.0% and 33.2%; across the ten provinces the rate runs from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
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.
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 0.7 km from St. Clair
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of St. Clair.
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 St. Clair; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in St. Clair
Does St. Clair have a public library?
Not within St. Clair itself: the closest is Hamilton Public Library - Concession Branch, in Eastmount.
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).