Photo: Reg Natarajan from Vancouver, Bogotá · CC BY 2.0VPL: Kensington Branch is Kensington-Cedar Cottage’s public library
Kensington-Cedar Cottage is served by Vancouver Public Library, the library of all of Vancouver, so the figures here are the city’s, for 742,394 people. In 2025 it logged 6.5 visits for every person it serves. 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 Kensington-Cedar Cottage’s civic life grade weighs
With a A−, Kensington-Cedar Cottage ranks #34 of 254 British Columbia towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Kensington-Cedar Cottage: 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.
Vancouver mailing addresses hold 1,798 registered charities
There is no count for Kensington-Cedar Cottage 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%
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 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.
Kensington-Cedar Cottage’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Kensington-Cedar Cottage.
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 Kensington-Cedar Cottage isn’t recorded.
Questions about the library and civic life in Kensington-Cedar Cottage
Does Kensington-Cedar Cottage have a public library?
Yes: VPL: Kensington 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).