Photo: Alasdair McLellan · CC BY-SA 3.0The nearest public library to Cobble Hill is VIRL: South Cowichan Branch, 5.1 km away
After it comes Piers Island Library (Southern Gulf Islands), 12 km away. Its libraries report as part of a wider system, so there are no figures for Cobble Hill in particular.
B+Civic life#97 of 254 in British ColumbiaWhat Cobble Hill’s civic life grade weighs
With a B+, Cobble Hill ranks #97 of 254 British Columbia towns on civic life. Cobble Hill has charities and volunteering for a civic life grade, though not library visits, and two of the three are enough.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
10 registered charities give a Cobble Hill mailing address
It works out to 2 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%
No town-level count exists, so the page uses British Columbia as a whole: 36.9% volunteered formally in 2023, between 35.2% and 38.7%, while the provinces span 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
The nearest library is 5.1 km from Cobble Hill
In order of distance from the centre of Cobble Hill, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020), merged; school, college, hospital and private libraries are left out.
Questions about the library and civic life in Cobble Hill
Does Cobble Hill have a public library?
Not within Cobble Hill itself: the closest is VIRL: South Cowichan Branch, in Electoral Area A, Cowichan Valley.
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).