Photo: Ruth Hartnup from Vancouver, Canada · CC BY 2.0No public library stands in South Cambie: the closest, VPL: Terry Salman Branch, is 0.9 km away
The library figures on this page are Vancouver’s: Vancouver Public Library serves all 742,394 people of the city, South Cambie among them. 6.5 visits per person served came through its doors in 2025. These are 2025 figures, the library’s own yearly return to British Columbia’s statistics.
A−Civic life#34 of 254 in British ColumbiaSouth Cambie’s civic life grade, input by input
South Cambie gets a A− for civic life, #34 of 254 towns graded in British Columbia. South Cambie 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.
Vancouver mailing addresses hold 1,798 registered charities
There is no count for South Cambie 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%
Statistics Canada puts formal volunteering in British Columbia at 36.9% in 2023, somewhere between 35.2% and 38.7%, for every town in the province alike; provinces range 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
Measured per person served against the 32 town libraries of British Columbia’s 2025 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 13,208 visits a day
The year 2025 at Vancouver Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
The nearest library is 0.9 km from South Cambie
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of South Cambie.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from South Cambie or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
Questions about the library and civic life in South Cambie
Does South Cambie have a public library?
South Cambie has none mapped; the closest public library is VPL: Terry Salman Branch, in Riley Park.
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).