Photo: Marlon Richmond · CC BY-SA 4.0Sunset’s public library is VPL: South Hill Branch
Vancouver Public Library serves the whole of Vancouver, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 742,394 people, Sunset among them. In 2025 it logged 6.5 visits for every person it serves. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to British Columbia’s public library statistics.
A−Civic life#34 of 254 in British ColumbiaWhat Sunset’s civic life grade weighs
With a A−, Sunset ranks #34 of 254 British Columbia towns on civic life. Sunset 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 Sunset 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%
The whole province shares one estimate: 36.9% of people in British Columbia volunteered formally in 2023 (between 35.2% and 38.7%), where the ten provinces run 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
What Vancouver Public Library counted in 2025, as the library reported it.
Sunset’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Sunset, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Visitors and people from nearby towns are in the count too; how many live in Sunset isn’t recorded.
Questions about the library and civic life in Sunset
Does Sunset have a public library?
Yes: VPL: South Hill 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).