Photo: Thedemonhog · CC BY-SA 3.0The nearest public library to Arbutus Ridge is Vancouver Public Library Kerrisdale Branch, 1.5 km away
Vancouver Public Library serves the whole of Vancouver, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 742,394 people, Arbutus Ridge among them. 6.5 visits per person served came through its doors in 2025. The figures come from British Columbia’s public library statistics for 2025, as the library filed them.
A−Civic life#34 of 254 in British ColumbiaWhat Arbutus Ridge’s civic life grade weighs
With a A−, Arbutus Ridge ranks #34 of 254 British Columbia towns on civic life. Arbutus Ridge 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.
1,798 registered charities give a Vancouver mailing address
There is no count for Arbutus Ridge on its own: the charities are those of all of Vancouver. Per 1,000 residents that makes 2.4; the median is 1.2 for British Columbia towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. 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.
Ahead of most of British Columbia’s town libraries on all 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 13,208 visits a day
What Vancouver Public Library counted in 2025, as the library reported it.
The nearest library is 1.5 km from Arbutus Ridge
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Arbutus Ridge.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Arbutus Ridge’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Arbutus Ridge
Does Arbutus Ridge have a public library?
Arbutus Ridge has none mapped; the closest public library is Vancouver Public Library Kerrisdale Branch, in Kerrisdale.
How busy is Vancouver Public Library?
It counted 4,820,937 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).