Photo: Shawn from Airdrie, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0More visits per person served than 76% of British Columbia’s town libraries: Smithers Public Library counts 7
Smithers Public Library serves 8,113 people from a single building. The figures come from British Columbia’s public library statistics for 2025, as the library filed them.
ACivic life#2 of 254 in British ColumbiaWhat Smithers’s civic life grade weighs
Smithers gets a A for civic life, #2 of 254 towns graded in British Columbia. All three civic life inputs exist for Smithers: 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.
49 registered charities give a Smithers mailing address
That is 8.7 per 1,000 residents, against 1.2 in the typical British Columbia town and 1.4 across Canada. 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%
Between 35.2% and 38.7% of people in British Columbia volunteered formally in 2023, 36.9% at the estimate’s middle; that is one figure for the province, which ranges from 25.2% to 40.3% nationally.
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 156 visits a day
Everything counted at Smithers Public Library in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
Smithers’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Smithers.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Smithers’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
- Per person served. Rather than Smithers’s census count, the rates use the population the library board says it serves.
Questions about the library and civic life in Smithers
Does Smithers have a public library?
Yes: Smithers Public Library.
How busy is Smithers Public Library?
It counted 57,004 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).