Photo: The original uploader was Damieng at English Wikipedia . · CC BY-SA 3.0Squamish Public Library is Squamish’s public library
Squamish Public Library has one location for the 29,659 people it serves. Visits ran to 4.7 per person served in 2025. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to British Columbia’s public library statistics.
BCivic life#183 of 254 in British ColumbiaSquamish’s civic life grade, input by input
With a B, Squamish ranks #183 of 254 British Columbia towns on civic life. Squamish has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
33 registered charities give a Squamish 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. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
36.9%
The 2023 survey gives British Columbia one volunteering rate for all its towns, 36.9% (between 35.2% and 38.7%), while provinces run from 25.2% at the low end to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Behind 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 383 visits on an average day
What Squamish Public Library counted in 2025, as the library reported it.
Squamish’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Squamish.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Two sources make the map, OpenStreetMap and a 2020 Statistics Canada list, with academic and private libraries dropped.
Questions about the library and civic life in Squamish
Does Squamish have a public library?
Yes: Squamish Public Library.
How busy is Squamish Public Library?
It counted 139,615 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).