Photo: Ian Spence · CC BY 3.0No public library stands in Coal Harbour: the closest, VPL: Joe Fortes Branch, is 0.8 km away
Coal Harbour is served by Vancouver Public Library, the library of all of Vancouver, so the figures here are the city’s, for 742,394 people. It counted 6.5 in-person visits per person served in 2025. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to British Columbia’s public library statistics.
A−Civic life#34 of 254 in British ColumbiaCoal Harbour’s civic life grade, input by input
Coal Harbour gets a A− for civic life, #34 of 254 towns graded in British Columbia. All three civic life inputs exist for Coal Harbour: 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.
1,798 registered charities are based in Vancouver, by mailing address
There is no count for Coal Harbour on its own: the charities are those of all of Vancouver. That is 2.4 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%
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.
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.
Some 13,208 visits on an average day
The year 2025 at Vancouver Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
The closest is 0.8 km from Coal Harbour
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Coal Harbour.
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 Coal Harbour isn’t recorded.
Questions about the library and civic life in Coal Harbour
Does Coal Harbour have a public library?
Not in Coal Harbour: the nearest public library is VPL: Joe Fortes Branch, in West End.
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).