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Libraries · Trillium

The nearest public library to Trillium is Hamilton Public Library - Stoney Creek Branch, 2.1 km away

Trillium is served by Hamilton public library, the library of all of Hamilton, so the figures here are the city’s, for 592,000 people. Loans ran to 4.1 items per person served 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 Ontario
Visits a year
2,735,720
4.6 per person served
Borrowed a year
2,435,516
4.1 per person served
Cardholders
31%
185,395 cards
Charities
891
1.4 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

Behind Trillium’s civic life grade

Civic life in Trillium grades C+: #337 of the 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 Trillium.

C+
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Trillium’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

891 registered charities give a Hamilton mailing address

There is no count for Trillium 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. 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.

Volunteering

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.

How it compares

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.

Visits per person served 4.6 visits · typical 3.4Higher than 74%
Loans per person served 4.1 items · typical 4Higher than 55%
Cardholders 31% of people served · typical 27%Higher than 64%
Fewer per personMore per person
Who is compared

Town libraries only; regional systems left out.

A year at the library

About 52,610 visits in a typical week

What Hamilton public library counted in 2024, as the library reported it.

2,735,720
in-person visits
4.6 per person served
2,435,516
items borrowed
4.1 per person served
185,395
cardholders
31% of people served
Every day6,673items borrowed
592,000 people served
Nearest libraries

The closest is 2.1 km from Trillium

Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Trillium.

How to read these numbers

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 Trillium isn’t recorded.

Questions about the library and civic life in Trillium

Does Trillium have a public library?

No library is mapped inside Trillium, and the nearest one is Hamilton Public Library - Stoney Creek Branch in Fruitland.

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).