Photo: Canmenwalker · CC BY 4.0Killarney’s public library is VPL: Champlain Heights Branch
Vancouver Public Library serves the whole of Vancouver, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 742,394 people, Killarney among them. It counted 6.5 in-person visits per person served 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 ColumbiaKillarney’s civic life grade, input by input
Killarney gets a A− for civic life, #34 of 254 towns graded in British Columbia. All three civic life inputs exist for Killarney: 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 Killarney 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. 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%
Statistics Canada puts formal volunteering in British Columbia at 36.9% in 2023, somewhere between 35.2% and 38.7%, for every town in the province alike; provinces range 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.
Some 13,208 visits on an average day
What Vancouver Public Library counted in 2025, as the library reported it.
Killarney’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Killarney.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A busy library may owe some of its visits to people who live outside Killarney; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in Killarney
Does Killarney have a public library?
Yes: VPL: Champlain Heights 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).