Templemead has no public library of its own; the nearest is Hamilton Public Library - Turner Park Branch, 2.6 km away
Hamilton public library serves the whole of Hamilton, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 592,000 people, Templemead among them. 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 OntarioBehind Templemead’s civic life grade
Templemead 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 Templemead.
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 Templemead 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. 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
Each figure is per person served, set against 195 town libraries in Ontario’s statistics for 2024.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
A typical week brings about 52,610 visits
Everything counted at Hamilton public library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
The nearest library is 2.6 km from Templemead
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Templemead.
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 Templemead isn’t recorded.
Questions about the library and civic life in Templemead
Does Templemead have a public library?
Not within Templemead itself: the closest is Hamilton Public Library - Turner Park Branch, in Sheldon.
How busy is Hamilton public library?
In 2024 it logged 2,735,720 in-person visits and 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).