Photo: Xicotencatl · CC BY-SA 4.0The nearest public library to Kitsilano is VPL: Kitsilano Branch, 1.1 km away
Vancouver Public Library serves the whole of Vancouver, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 742,394 people, Kitsilano among them. 6.5 visits per person served came through its doors 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 ColumbiaBehind Kitsilano’s civic life grade
Civic life in Kitsilano grades A−: #34 of the 254 towns graded in British Columbia. Kitsilano has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s 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 Kitsilano on its own: the charities are those of all of Vancouver. That is 2.4 per 1,000 residents, against 1.2 in the typical British Columbia town and 1.4 across Canada. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
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
Per person served, against the 32 town libraries in British Columbia’s 2025 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 13,208 visits a day
The year 2025 at Vancouver Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
The nearest library is 1.1 km from Kitsilano
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Kitsilano.
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 Kitsilano.
Questions about the library and civic life in Kitsilano
Does Kitsilano have a public library?
Kitsilano has none mapped; the closest public library is VPL: Kitsilano Branch, in Greektown.
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).