Photo: Canadian2006 · CC BY-SA 3.0Mount Pleasant’s public library is VPL: Mount Pleasant Branch
The library figures on this page are Vancouver’s: Vancouver Public Library serves all 742,394 people of the city, Mount Pleasant among them. In 2025 it logged 6.5 visits for every person it serves. These are 2025 figures, the library’s own yearly return to British Columbia’s statistics.
A−Civic life#34 of 254 in British ColumbiaWhat Mount Pleasant’s civic life grade weighs
With a A−, Mount Pleasant ranks #34 of 254 British Columbia towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Mount Pleasant: 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 Mount Pleasant 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. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
36.9%
In 2023, 36.9% of people in British Columbia volunteered formally: one estimate for the whole province, likely between 35.2% and 38.7%, in a range of 25.2% to 40.3% across the ten provinces.
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.
Mount Pleasant’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Mount Pleasant.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Mount Pleasant’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Mount Pleasant
Does Mount Pleasant have a public library?
Yes: VPL: Mount Pleasant 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).