The nearest public library to Norquay Village is VPL: Collingwood Branch, 0.6 km away
The library figures on this page are Vancouver’s: Vancouver Public Library serves all 742,394 people of the city, Norquay Village among them. Visits ran to 6.5 per person served 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 Norquay Village’s civic life grade
With a A−, Norquay Village ranks #34 of 254 British Columbia towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Norquay Village: 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 Norquay Village 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. 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%
For 2023, the provincial survey estimates that 36.9% of people in British Columbia volunteered formally (likely 35.2% to 38.7%); among the ten provinces the rate goes 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
Everything counted at Vancouver Public Library in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
The closest is 0.6 km from Norquay Village
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Norquay Village.
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 Norquay Village.
Questions about the library and civic life in Norquay Village
Does Norquay Village have a public library?
No library is mapped inside Norquay Village, and the nearest one is VPL: Collingwood Branch in Collingwood.
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).