Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0Each person London Public Library serves borrows 5.5 items, more than at 77% of Ontario’s town libraries
The library figures on this page are London’s: London Public Library serves all 439,385 people of the city, Hamilton Road among them. Visits ran to 4.1 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#605 of 866 in OntarioHamilton Road’s civic life grade, input by input
Hamilton Road gets a C+ for civic life, #605 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 Hamilton Road.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
633 registered charities give a London mailing address
There is no count for Hamilton Road on its own: the charities are those of all of London. That is 1.3 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Ontario town and 1.4 across Canada. 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
Per person served, against the 195 town libraries in Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
A typical week brings about 34,310 visits
Everything counted at London Public Library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
Hamilton Road’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Hamilton Road.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The map joins OpenStreetMap with Statistics Canada’s 2020 cultural facilities list and leaves out school, college and private libraries.
Questions about the library and civic life in Hamilton Road
Does Hamilton Road have a public library?
Yes: London Public Library - Crouch.
How busy is London Public Library?
In 2024 it logged 1,784,120 in-person visits and 2,404,067 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).