Photo: Darren Kirby · CC BY-SA 2.0Kaslo has one public library, Kaslo & District Public Library
The figures are those of Kaslo & District Public Library, which serves 2,527 people in and around Kaslo. Visits ran to 7.8 per person served in 2025. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to British Columbia’s public library statistics.
ACivic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteeringWhat Kaslo’s civic life grade weighs
Kaslo gets a A for civic life. Two of the three civic life inputs exist for Kaslo, 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.
Kaslo mailing addresses hold 19 registered charities
That is 16.7 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%
The 2023 survey gives British Columbia one volunteering rate for all its towns, 36.9% (between 35.2% and 38.7%), while provinces run from 25.2% at the low end to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Some 54 visits on an average day
The year 2025 at Kaslo & District Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Kaslo’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Kaslo.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The points are public libraries only, drawn from OpenStreetMap and from Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020).
Questions about the library and civic life in Kaslo
Does Kaslo have a public library?
Yes: Kaslo & District Public Library.
How busy is Kaslo & District Public Library?
It counted 19,700 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).