ORL: Salmon Arm Branch and Silver Creek are Salmon Arm’s two public libraries

No library board reports for Salmon Arm alone: its libraries belong to a county or regional system, whose figures cover many towns.

ACivic life#32 of 254 in British Columbia

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Libraries

Charities

2.9 per 1,000 residents

Civic life grade

Salmon Arm’s civic life grade, input by input

Salmon Arm gets a A for civic life, #32 of 254 towns graded in British Columbia. Two of the three civic life inputs exist for Salmon Arm, enough for a grade: charities and volunteering, but not library visits.

Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Salmon Arm’s overall grade.

–Library visitsNo library board of its own A⁻Charities2.9 per 1,000 · British Columbia towns 1.2 · Canada 1.4 B⁺Volunteering36.9% of residents · all of British Columbia, 2023

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

61 registered charities give a Salmon Arm mailing address

It works out to 2.9 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.

Volunteering

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.

The libraries

2 public libraries in Salmon Arm

Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Salmon Arm.

2.8kmORL: Salmon Arm BranchWebsite →5.1kmSilver CreekDirections →

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

Library locations. OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020), merged; school, college, hospital and private libraries are left out.

Questions about the library and civic life in Salmon Arm

Does Salmon Arm have a public library?

Yes, 2: ORL: Salmon Arm Branch and Silver Creek.

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).