Photo: dronepicr · CC BY 2.0The nearest public library to Davie Village is VPL: Joe Fortes Branch, 1 km away
Vancouver Public Library serves the whole of Vancouver, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 742,394 people, Davie Village among them. Visits ran to 6.5 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 ColumbiaWhat Davie Village’s civic life grade weighs
Davie Village gets a A− for civic life, #34 of 254 towns graded in British Columbia. All three civic life inputs exist for Davie Village: 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 Davie Village 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. 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%
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
Measured per person served against the 32 town libraries of British Columbia’s 2025 statistics.
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 1 km from Davie Village
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Davie Village.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Tourists, commuters and neighbours all add to the visits, and nobody records which of them live in Davie Village.
Questions about the library and civic life in Davie Village
Does Davie Village have a public library?
No, but VPL: Joe Fortes Branch in West End is the nearest public library to Davie Village.
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).