Photo: Canmenwalker · CC BY 4.0Kerrisdale’s public library is Vancouver Public Library Kerrisdale Branch
Kerrisdale is served by Vancouver Public Library, the library of all of Vancouver, so the figures here are the city’s, for 742,394 people. 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 ColumbiaBehind Kerrisdale’s civic life grade
Civic life in Kerrisdale grades A−: #34 of the 254 towns graded in British Columbia. All three civic life inputs exist for Kerrisdale: 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 give a Vancouver mailing address
There is no count for Kerrisdale on its own: the charities are those of all of Vancouver. It works out to 2.4 per 1,000 residents, where the typical British Columbia town has 1.2 and Canada’s 1.4. 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%
One figure covers all of British Columbia: in 2023, 36.9% of its people gave time to an organization (between 35.2% and 38.7%), against a provincial range of 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
Everything counted at Vancouver Public Library in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
Kerrisdale’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Kerrisdale.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A library’s visits include people from neighbouring towns and visitors; the statistics don’t say how many come from Kerrisdale itself.
Questions about the library and civic life in Kerrisdale
Does Kerrisdale have a public library?
Yes: Vancouver Public Library Kerrisdale 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).