Photo: Sam Beebe · CC BY 2.0Kitimat has one public library, Kitimat Library
Kitimat Library has one location for the 10,019 people it serves. It counted 4.1 in-person visits per person served in 2025. These are 2025 figures, the library’s own yearly return to British Columbia’s statistics.
B+Civic life#96 of 254 in British ColumbiaWhat Kitimat’s civic life grade weighs
Kitimat gets a B+ for civic life, #96 of 254 towns graded in British Columbia. All three civic life inputs exist for Kitimat: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Kitimat mailing addresses hold 22 registered charities
Per 1,000 residents that makes 2.2; 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%
Between 35.2% and 38.7% of people in British Columbia volunteered formally in 2023, 36.9% at the estimate’s middle; that is one figure for the province, which ranges from 25.2% to 40.3% nationally.
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.
Some 113 visits on an average day
The year 2025 at Kitimat Library, in the library’s own counts.
Kitimat’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Kitimat.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Two sources make the map, OpenStreetMap and a 2020 Statistics Canada list, with academic and private libraries dropped.
Questions about the library and civic life in Kitimat
Does Kitimat have a public library?
Yes: Kitimat Library.
How busy is Kitimat Library?
It counted 41,203 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).