TNRL: Ashcroft Library is Ashcroft’s public library

It sits 0.9 km from the centre of Ashcroft. Ashcroft has no library board of its own in the provincial statistics, so no visit or loan figures appear here.

BCivic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteering

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Libraries

Charities

6.3 per 1,000 residents

Civic life grade

What Ashcroft’s civic life grade weighs

Ashcroft gets a B for civic life. Ashcroft has charities and volunteering for a civic life grade, though not library visits, and two of the three are enough.

Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Ashcroft’s overall grade.

–Library visitsNo library board of its own C⁺Charities6.3 per 1,000 · British Columbia towns 1.2 · Canada 1.4 B⁺Volunteering36.9% of residents · all of British Columbia, 2023

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

11 registered charities give a Ashcroft mailing address

That is 6.3 per 1,000 residents, against 1.2 in the typical British Columbia town and 1.4 across Canada. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.

Volunteering

36.9%

Between 35.2% and 38.7% of people in British Columbia volunteered formally in 2023, 36.9% at the estimate’s middle; that is one figure for the province, which ranges from 25.2% to 40.3% nationally.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

The libraries

Ashcroft’s public library

Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Ashcroft.

0.9kmTNRL: Ashcroft LibraryWebsite →

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

Library locations. The points are public libraries only, drawn from OpenStreetMap and from Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020).

Questions about the library and civic life in Ashcroft

Does Ashcroft have a public library?

Yes: TNRL: Ashcroft Library.

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).