Photo: waferboard · CC BY 2.0Cranbrook has one public library, Cranbrook Public Library
Cranbrook Public Library has one location for the 30,076 people it serves. In 2025 it logged 3.4 visits for every person it serves. The figures come from British Columbia’s public library statistics for 2025, as the library filed them.
A−Civic life#94 of 254 in British ColumbiaWhat Cranbrook’s civic life grade weighs
Cranbrook gets a A− for civic life, #94 of 254 towns graded in British Columbia. 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 Cranbrook.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
62 registered charities give a Cranbrook mailing address
That is 2.7 per 1,000 residents, against 1.2 in the typical British Columbia town and 1.4 across Canada. 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%
For 2023, the provincial survey estimates that 36.9% of people in British Columbia volunteered formally (likely 35.2% to 38.7%); among the ten provinces the rate goes from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Behind 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.
About 282 visits a day
Everything counted at Cranbrook Public Library in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
Cranbrook’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Cranbrook.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Per person served. The per-person figures use the library’s own service population, not the census count for Cranbrook.
Questions about the library and civic life in Cranbrook
Does Cranbrook have a public library?
Yes: Cranbrook Public Library.
How busy is Cranbrook Public Library?
It counted 103,080 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).