Photo: Visit-World. com Author: www.visit-world.com · CC BY-SA 3.0Gibsons’s public library is Gibsons & District Public Library
Gibsons & District Public Library serves 13,810 people, more than Gibsons alone, so its figures cover the wider area. 7.3 visits per person served came through its doors in 2025. These are 2025 figures, the library’s own yearly return to British Columbia’s statistics.
A−Civic life#68 of 254 in British ColumbiaWhat Gibsons’s civic life grade weighs
Gibsons gets a A− for civic life, #68 of 254 towns graded in British Columbia. Gibsons 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.
38 registered charities are based in Gibsons, by mailing address
That is 7.5 per 1,000 residents, against 1.2 in the typical British Columbia town and 1.4 across Canada. 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%
36.9% of people in British Columbia did formal volunteering in 2023, a province-wide estimate between 35.2% and 38.7%; across the ten provinces the rate runs from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
About 275 visits a day
Everything counted at Gibsons & District Public Library in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
Gibsons’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Gibsons.
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 Gibsons
Does Gibsons have a public library?
Yes: Gibsons & District Public Library.
How busy is Gibsons & District Public Library?
It counted 100,372 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).