Renfrew-Collingwood’s public library is VPL: Renfrew Branch
The library figures on this page are Vancouver’s: Vancouver Public Library serves all 742,394 people of the city, Renfrew-Collingwood among them. It counted 6.5 in-person visits per person served in 2025. The figures come from British Columbia’s public library statistics for 2025, as the library filed them.
A−Civic life#34 of 254 in British ColumbiaWhat Renfrew-Collingwood’s civic life grade weighs
With a A−, Renfrew-Collingwood ranks #34 of 254 British Columbia towns on civic life. Renfrew-Collingwood 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 Renfrew-Collingwood 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. 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%
36.9% of people in British Columbia did formal volunteering in 2023, a province-wide estimate between 35.2% and 38.7%; across the ten provinces the rate runs 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
The year 2025 at Vancouver Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Renfrew-Collingwood’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Renfrew-Collingwood.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from Renfrew-Collingwood or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
Questions about the library and civic life in Renfrew-Collingwood
Does Renfrew-Collingwood have a public library?
Yes: VPL: Renfrew 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).