Photo: Hameltion · CC BY-SA 4.0More visits per person served than 98% of British Columbia’s town libraries: Bowen Island Public Library counts 11.6
A single building, Bowen Island Public Library, serves 4,501 people. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to British Columbia’s public library statistics.
B+Civic life#112 of 254 in British ColumbiaBehind Bowen Island’s civic life grade
With a B+, Bowen Island ranks #112 of 254 British Columbia towns on civic life. Bowen Island 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.
Bowen Island mailing addresses hold 21 registered charities
It works out to 4.7 per 1,000 residents, where the typical British Columbia town has 1.2 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.
36.9%
Between 35.2% and 38.7% of people in British Columbia volunteered formally in 2023, 36.9% at the estimate’s middle; that is one figure for the province, which ranges from 25.2% to 40.3% nationally.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of British Columbia’s town libraries on all 2 measures
Each figure is per person served, set against 32 town libraries in British Columbia’s statistics for 2025.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
Some 143 visits on an average day
The year 2025 at Bowen Island Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Bowen Island’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Bowen Island.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from Bowen Island or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
Questions about the library and civic life in Bowen Island
Does Bowen Island have a public library?
Yes: Bowen Island Public Library.
How busy is Bowen Island Public Library?
It counted 52,119 in-person visits in 2025.
Library statistics: BC Public Libraries Statistics, 2025. 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).