Photo: SoftwareSimian · CC BY-SA 3.0Pemberton’s public library is Pemberton & District Public Library
Pemberton & District Public Library reports for 7,236 people, a wider area than Pemberton, and its figures cover all of them. Visits ran to 8.4 per person served in 2025. These are 2025 figures, the library’s own yearly return to British Columbia’s statistics.
BCivic life#176 of 254 in British ColumbiaPemberton’s civic life grade, input by input
Pemberton gets a B for civic life, #176 of 254 towns graded in British Columbia. A civic life grade needs two of its three inputs, and Pemberton has charities and volunteering, though not library visits.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Pemberton mailing addresses hold 11 registered charities
Per 1,000 residents that makes 3; the median is 1.2 for British Columbia towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. The CRA files each charity under its mailing address, so a service town collects its region’s charities and a suburb or rural municipality few.
36.9%
The 2023 survey gives British Columbia one volunteering rate for all its towns, 36.9% (between 35.2% and 38.7%), while provinces run from 25.2% at the low end to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Some 166 visits on an average day
The year 2025 at Pemberton & District Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Pemberton’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Pemberton.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The map joins OpenStreetMap with Statistics Canada’s 2020 cultural facilities list and leaves out school, college and private libraries.
Questions about the library and civic life in Pemberton
Does Pemberton have a public library?
Yes: Pemberton & District Public Library.
How busy is Pemberton & District Public Library?
It counted 60,476 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).