Photo: Yuet Man Lee · CC BY-SA 4.0Victoria-Fraserview has one public library, VPL: Fraserview Branch
Vancouver Public Library serves the whole of Vancouver, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 742,394 people, Victoria-Fraserview among them. 6.5 visits per person served came through its doors 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 Victoria-Fraserview’s civic life grade weighs
With a A−, Victoria-Fraserview ranks #34 of 254 British Columbia towns on civic life. Victoria-Fraserview 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 give a Vancouver mailing address
There is no count for Victoria-Fraserview on its own: the charities are those of all of Vancouver. It works out to 2.4 per 1,000 residents, where the typical British Columbia town has 1.2 and Canada’s 1.4. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
36.9%
Across British Columbia, 36.9% of people volunteered through an organization in 2023, a provincial estimate with a likely range of 35.2% to 38.7%; the lowest province sits at 25.2% and the highest at 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.
About 13,208 visits a day
The year 2025 at Vancouver Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Victoria-Fraserview’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Victoria-Fraserview.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Tourists, commuters and neighbours all add to the visits, and nobody records which of them live in Victoria-Fraserview.
Questions about the library and civic life in Victoria-Fraserview
Does Victoria-Fraserview have a public library?
Yes: VPL: Fraserview 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).