Photo: John Shorten · CC BY 4.03 public library branches serve Coquitlam
Coquitlam Public Library serves 173,664 people. In 2025 it logged 4.8 visits for every person it serves. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to British Columbia’s public library statistics.
BCivic life#186 of 254 in British ColumbiaWhat Coquitlam’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Coquitlam grades B: #186 of the 254 towns graded in British Columbia. Coquitlam 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.
172 registered charities are based in Coquitlam, by mailing address
It works out to 1 per 1,000 residents, where the typical British Columbia town has 1.2 and Canada’s 1.4. The CRA files each charity under its mailing address, so a service town collects its region’s charities and a suburb or rural municipality few.
36.9%
The whole province shares one estimate: 36.9% of people in British Columbia volunteered formally in 2023 (between 35.2% and 38.7%), where the ten provinces run from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of British Columbia’s town libraries on 1 of 2 measures
Measured per person served against the 32 town libraries of British Columbia’s 2025 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 2,305 visits a day
Everything counted at Coquitlam Public Library in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
3 public libraries in Coquitlam
In order of distance from the centre of Coquitlam, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. A library listed by both OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada appears once; campus, school and private ones are left off.
Questions about the library and civic life in Coquitlam
Does Coquitlam have a public library?
Yes, 3: CPL: City Centre Branch, CPL: Poirier Branch and City Centre Branch.
How busy is Coquitlam Public Library?
It counted 841,317 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).