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Libraries · Naramata

Naramata’s public library is ORL: Naramata Branch

From the centre of Naramata, it is 2 km away. Naramata has no library board of its own in the provincial statistics, so no visit or loan figures appear here.

B+Civic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteering
Libraries
1
Charities
4
1.9 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

What Naramata’s civic life grade weighs

Naramata gets a B+ for civic life. Naramata has charities and volunteering for a civic life grade, though not library visits, and two of the three are enough.

B+
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Naramata’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

4 registered charities are based in Naramata, by mailing address

Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.9; 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.

Volunteering

36.9%

One figure covers all of British Columbia: in 2023, 36.9% of its people gave time to an organization (between 35.2% and 38.7%), against a provincial range of 25.2% to 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

The libraries

Naramata’s public library

Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Naramata.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Library locations. Locations merge two sources, OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, without school, college or hospital libraries.

Questions about the library and civic life in Naramata

Does Naramata have a public library?

Yes: ORL: Naramata Branch.

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).