Photo: Original uploader was Fawcett5 at en.wikipedia Later version(s) were uploaded by Peteforsyth at en.wikipedia . · Public domainPenticton’s public library is Penticton Public Library
A single building, Penticton Public Library, serves 39,068 people. In 2025 it logged 4.2 visits for every person it serves. These are 2025 figures, the library’s own yearly return to British Columbia’s statistics.
B+Civic life#118 of 254 in British ColumbiaBehind Penticton’s civic life grade
Civic life in Penticton grades B+: #118 of the 254 towns graded in British Columbia. Penticton has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
77 registered charities are based in Penticton, by mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 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%
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.
Ahead of most of British Columbia’s town libraries on 1 of 2 measures
Measured per person served against the 32 town libraries of British Columbia’s 2025 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 452 visits a day
What Penticton Public Library counted in 2025, as the library reported it.
Penticton’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Penticton.
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 Penticton
Does Penticton have a public library?
Yes: Penticton Public Library.
How busy is Penticton Public Library?
It counted 165,127 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).