Photo: Vxceprex · CC BY-SA 3.0Grand Forks has one public library, Grand Forks & District Public Library
Grand Forks & District Public Library reports for 9,666 people, a wider area than Grand Forks, and its figures cover all of them. In 2025 it logged 4.5 visits for every person it serves. These are 2025 figures, the library’s own yearly return to British Columbia’s statistics.
A−Civic life#63 of 254 in British ColumbiaBehind Grand Forks’s civic life grade
Civic life in Grand Forks grades A−: #63 of the 254 towns graded in British Columbia. Two of the three civic life inputs exist for Grand Forks, enough for a grade: charities and volunteering, but not library visits.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
30 registered charities are based in Grand Forks, by mailing address
That is 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%
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 118 visits a day
Everything counted at Grand Forks & District Public Library in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
Grand Forks’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Grand Forks.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Only public libraries are mapped: OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, with school and university libraries removed.
Questions about the library and civic life in Grand Forks
Does Grand Forks have a public library?
Yes: Grand Forks & District Public Library.
How busy is Grand Forks & District Public Library?
It counted 43,145 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).