Photo: Xicotencatl · CC BY-SA 4.0More visits per person served than 79% of British Columbia’s town libraries: North Vancouver District Public Library counts 7.8
The 100,766 people North Vancouver District Public Library serves have 3 branches to choose from. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to British Columbia’s public library statistics.
ACivic life#14 of 254 in British ColumbiaBehind North Vancouver’s civic life grade
North Vancouver gets a A for civic life, #14 of 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 North Vancouver.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
255 registered charities are based in North Vancouver, by mailing address
It works out to 2.6 per 1,000 residents, where the typical British Columbia town has 1.2 and Canada’s 1.4. 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.
Ahead of 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 2,144 visits on an average day
What North Vancouver District Public Library counted in 2025, as the library reported it.
North Vancouver’s 3 public libraries
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of North Vancouver.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between North Vancouver’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in North Vancouver
Does North Vancouver have a public library?
Yes, 3: NVDPL: Capilano Branch, NVDPL: Lynn Valley and NVDPL: Parkgate Library.
How busy is North Vancouver District Public Library?
It counted 782,475 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).