Photo: Canmenwalker · CC BY 4.0VPL: Oakridge Branch and Oakridge Branch are Oakridge’s two public libraries
Oakridge is served by Vancouver Public Library, the library of all of Vancouver, so the figures here are the city’s, for 742,394 people. 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 ColumbiaWhat Oakridge’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Oakridge grades A−: #34 of the 254 towns graded in British Columbia. A civic life grade combines library visits per resident, registered charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate, and all three exist for Oakridge.
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 Oakridge 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. 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%
Volunteering here is a provincial number: 36.9% of people across British Columbia in 2023, likely 35.2% to 38.7%, set in a ten-province 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.
Some 13,208 visits on an average day
The year 2025 at Vancouver Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
2 public libraries in Oakridge
In order of distance from the centre of Oakridge, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from Oakridge or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
Questions about the library and civic life in Oakridge
Does Oakridge have a public library?
Yes, 2: VPL: Oakridge Branch and Oakridge 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).