Photo: Thegooduser · CC BY-SA 4.0VPL: Collingwood Branch is Collingwood’s public library
Vancouver Public Library serves the whole of Vancouver, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 742,394 people, Collingwood among them. 6.5 visits per person served came through its doors in 2025. These are 2025 figures, the library’s own yearly return to British Columbia’s statistics.
A−Civic life#34 of 254 in British ColumbiaCollingwood’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Collingwood grades A−: #34 of the 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 Collingwood.
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 Collingwood 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%
36.9% of people in British Columbia did formal volunteering in 2023, a province-wide estimate between 35.2% and 38.7%; across the ten provinces the rate runs from 25.2% 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.
About 13,208 visits a day
What Vancouver Public Library counted in 2025, as the library reported it.
Collingwood’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Collingwood.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Collingwood’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Collingwood
Does Collingwood have a public library?
Yes: VPL: Collingwood Branch.
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).