Photo: Michael Rogers. Original uploader was Mjrogers50 at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0Rossland Public Library logs 8.7 visits per person served, more than 89% of British Columbia’s town libraries
A single building, Rossland Public Library, serves 4,355 people. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to British Columbia’s public library statistics.
ACivic life#9 of 254 in British ColumbiaBehind Rossland’s civic life grade
Civic life in Rossland grades A: #9 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 Rossland.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Rossland mailing addresses hold 10 registered charities
It works out to 2.3 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%
In 2023, 36.9% of people in British Columbia volunteered formally: one estimate for the whole province, likely between 35.2% and 38.7%, in a range of 25.2% to 40.3% across the ten provinces.
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 104 visits on an average day
Everything counted at Rossland Public Library in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
Rossland’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Rossland.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Rossland’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Rossland
Does Rossland have a public library?
Yes: Rossland Public Library.
How busy is Rossland Public Library?
It counted 37,908 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).