Photo: Wpcpey · CC BY-SA 4.0No public library stands in Shaughnessy: the closest, Oakridge Branch, is 1.6 km away
Vancouver Public Library serves the whole of Vancouver, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 742,394 people, Shaughnessy 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 ColumbiaWhat Shaughnessy’s civic life grade weighs
Shaughnessy gets a A− for civic life, #34 of 254 towns graded in British Columbia. All three civic life inputs exist for Shaughnessy: 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 Shaughnessy 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. 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%
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
Measured per person served against the 32 town libraries of British Columbia’s 2025 statistics.
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 1.6 km from Shaughnessy
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Shaughnessy.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A busy library may owe some of its visits to people who live outside Shaughnessy; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in Shaughnessy
Does Shaughnessy have a public library?
No library is mapped inside Shaughnessy, and the nearest one is Oakridge Branch in Oakridge.
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).