Photo: Miranda.Kopetzky · CC BY-SA 4.0North Vancouver has one public library, North Vancouver City Library
North Vancouver City Library serves 67,296 people from a single building. In 2025 it logged 6 visits for every person it serves. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to British Columbia’s public library statistics.
B−Civic life#198 of 254 in British ColumbiaNorth Vancouver’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in North Vancouver grades B−: #198 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 North Vancouver.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
No registered charity gives a North Vancouver mailing address
Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
36.9%
Volunteering here is a provincial number: 36.9% of people across British Columbia in 2023, likely 35.2% to 38.7%, set in a ten-province range of 25.2% to 40.3%.
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.
About 1,103 visits a day
The year 2025 at North Vancouver City Library, in the library’s own counts.
North Vancouver’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of North Vancouver, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. A library listed by both OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada appears once; campus, school and private ones are left off.
Questions about the library and civic life in North Vancouver
Does North Vancouver have a public library?
Yes: North Vancouver City Library.
How busy is North Vancouver City Library?
It counted 402,628 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).