Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainHamilton Public Library - Valley Park Branch is Valley Park’s public library
The library figures on this page are Hamilton’s: Hamilton Public Library serves all 592,000 people of the city, Valley Park among them. In 2024 it lent 4.1 items for every person it serves. The yearly visit count is an estimate: Ontario libraries count a typical week, then multiply by 52.
C+Civic life#337 of 866 in OntarioBehind Valley Park’s civic life grade
Civic life in Valley Park grades C+: #337 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. Valley Park 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.
891 registered charities give a Hamilton mailing address
There is no count for Valley Park 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. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.
32.1%
Statistics Canada puts formal volunteering in Ontario at 32.1% in 2023, somewhere between 31.0% and 33.2%, for every town in the province alike; provinces range 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
The year 2024 at Hamilton Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Valley Park’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Valley Park.
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 Valley Park isn’t recorded.
Questions about the library and civic life in Valley Park
Does Valley Park have a public library?
Yes: Hamilton Public Library - Valley Park Branch.
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).