Photo: waferboard · CC BY 2.0Sechelt Public Library is Sechelt’s public library
Sechelt Public Library reports for 20,779 people, a wider area than Sechelt, and its figures cover all of them. 3.9 visits per person served came through its doors in 2025. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to British Columbia’s public library statistics.
ACivic life#18 of 254 in British ColumbiaBehind Sechelt’s civic life grade
Civic life in Sechelt grades A: #18 of the 254 towns graded in British Columbia. A civic life grade needs two of its three inputs, and Sechelt has charities and volunteering, though not library visits.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
37 registered charities are based in Sechelt, by mailing address
That is 3.2 per 1,000 residents, against 1.2 in the typical British Columbia town and 1.4 across Canada. 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%
Formal volunteering is measured only for the province: 36.9% of British Columbia’s people in 2023, give or take (35.2% to 38.7%), with the provinces between 25.2% and 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
About 222 visits a day
Everything counted at Sechelt Public Library in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
Sechelt’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Sechelt.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. A library listed by both OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada appears once; campus, school and private ones are left off.
Questions about the library and civic life in Sechelt
Does Sechelt have a public library?
Yes: Sechelt Public Library.
How busy is Sechelt Public Library?
It counted 81,029 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).