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Libraries · Trinity

The nearest public library to Trinity is Hamilton Public Library - Valley Park Branch, 1.5 km away

Hamilton public library serves the whole of Hamilton, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 592,000 people, Trinity among them. Its borrowers took out 4.1 items per person served in 2024. 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 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

What Trinity’s civic life grade weighs

Civic life in Trinity grades C+: #337 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. Trinity has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.

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

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

891 registered charities are based in Hamilton, by mailing address

There is no count for Trinity 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.

Volunteering

32.1%

Volunteering here is a provincial number: 32.1% of people across Ontario in 2023, likely 31.0% to 33.2%, set in a ten-province range of 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

Everything counted at Hamilton public library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.

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 nearest library is 1.5 km from Trinity

In order of distance from the centre of Trinity, as the crow flies.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Visits count everyone. A library’s visits include people from neighbouring towns and visitors; the statistics don’t say how many come from Trinity itself.

Questions about the library and civic life in Trinity

Does Trinity have a public library?

Trinity has none mapped; the closest public library is Hamilton Public Library - Valley Park Branch, in Valley Park.

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).