Photo: Jason Zhang · CC0No public library stands in York Road: the closest, Hamilton Public Library - Dundas Branch, is 2.1 km away
The library figures on this page are Hamilton’s: Hamilton public library serves all 592,000 people of the city, York Road among them. Loans ran to 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 OntarioYork Road’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in York Road 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 York Road.
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 York Road 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. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
32.1%
One figure covers all of Ontario: in 2023, 32.1% of its people gave time to an organization (between 31.0% and 33.2%), against a provincial range of 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.
A typical week brings about 52,610 visits
The year 2024 at Hamilton public library, in the library’s own counts.
The closest is 2.1 km from York Road
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of York Road.
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 York Road; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in York Road
Does York Road have a public library?
No library is mapped inside York Road, and the nearest one is Hamilton Public Library - Dundas Branch in Central Business Dis.
How busy is Hamilton public library?
People made 2,735,720 visits in person and borrowed 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).