Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 3.0Kimberley Public Library logs 2.9 visits per person served, fewer than 85% of British Columbia’s town libraries
Kimberley Public Library has one location for the 10,896 people it serves. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to British Columbia’s public library statistics.
B+Civic life#141 of 254 in British ColumbiaKimberley’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Kimberley grades B+: #141 of the 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 Kimberley.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
25 registered charities are based in Kimberley, by mailing address
That is 2.8 per 1,000 residents, against 1.2 in the typical British Columbia town and 1.4 across Canada. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
36.9%
Across British Columbia, 36.9% of people volunteered through an organization in 2023, a provincial estimate with a likely range of 35.2% to 38.7%; the lowest province sits at 25.2% and the highest at 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Behind most of British Columbia’s town libraries on all 2 measures
Per person served, against the 32 town libraries in British Columbia’s 2025 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 87 visits a day
What Kimberley Public Library counted in 2025, as the library reported it.
Kimberley’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Kimberley.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Per person served. The library sets its own service population, and the rates here divide by it rather than by Kimberley’s census count.
Questions about the library and civic life in Kimberley
Does Kimberley have a public library?
Yes: Kimberley Public Library.
How busy is Kimberley Public Library?
It counted 31,900 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).