Photo: waferboard · CC BY 2.0Port Moody Public Library draws 8.5 visits per person served, ahead of 85% of British Columbia’s town libraries
Port Moody Public Library serves 38,285 people from a single building. These are 2025 figures, the library’s own yearly return to British Columbia’s statistics.
B+Civic life#147 of 254 in British ColumbiaWhat Port Moody’s civic life grade weighs
With a B+, Port Moody ranks #147 of 254 British Columbia towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Port Moody: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
45 registered charities are based in Port Moody, by mailing address
It works out to 1.2 per 1,000 residents, where the typical British Columbia town has 1.2 and Canada’s 1.4. 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%
36.9% of people in British Columbia did formal volunteering in 2023, a province-wide estimate between 35.2% and 38.7%; across the ten provinces the rate runs from 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 896 visits a day
Everything counted at Port Moody Public Library in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
Port Moody’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Port Moody.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Port Moody’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Port Moody
Does Port Moody have a public library?
Yes: Port Moody Public Library.
How busy is Port Moody Public Library?
It counted 326,964 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).