Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainElkford has one public library, Elkford Public Library
A single building, Elkford Public Library, serves 3,030 people. It counted 5.3 in-person visits per person served in 2025. The figures come from British Columbia’s public library statistics for 2025, as the library filed them.
A−Civic life#74 of 254 in British ColumbiaWhat Elkford’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Elkford grades A−: #74 of the 254 towns graded in British Columbia. Elkford 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.
Elkford mailing addresses hold 6 registered charities
Per 1,000 residents that makes 2; the median is 1.2 for British Columbia towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. 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%
Volunteering here is a provincial number: 36.9% of people across British Columbia in 2023, likely 35.2% to 38.7%, set in a ten-province range of 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
Per person served, against the 32 town libraries in British Columbia’s 2025 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
Some 44 visits on an average day
Everything counted at Elkford Public Library in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
Elkford’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Elkford, 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 Elkford
Does Elkford have a public library?
Yes: Elkford Public Library.
How busy is Elkford Public Library?
It counted 16,198 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).