Photo: The original uploader was RandyMac at English Wikipedia . · CC BY-SA 3.0At 8 visits per person served, trail & district public library is busier than 82% of British Columbia’s town libraries
trail & district public library has 2 branches for the 10,268 people it serves. The figures come from British Columbia’s public library statistics for 2025, as the library filed them.
ACivic life#11 of 254 in British ColumbiaWhat Trail’s civic life grade weighs
Trail gets a A for civic life, #11 of 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 Trail.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Trail mailing addresses hold 31 registered charities
It works out to 3.6 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%
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 1 of 2 measures
Each figure is per person served, set against 32 town libraries in British Columbia’s statistics for 2025.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 226 visits a day
The year 2025 at trail & district public library, in the library’s own counts.
Trail’s 2 public libraries
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Trail.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Visitors and people from nearby towns are in the count too; how many live in Trail isn’t recorded.
- Per person served. The library sets its own service population, and the rates here divide by it rather than by Trail’s census count.
Questions about the library and civic life in Trail
Does Trail have a public library?
Yes, 2: Trail & District Public Library and Trail & District Public Library.
How busy is trail & district public library?
It counted 82,511 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).