No public library stands in Harrison Hot Springs: the closest, Agassiz Library, is 6.5 km away

After it comes Agassiz Library (Electoral Area C, Fraser Valley), 16 km away. No library board reports for Harrison Hot Springs alone: its libraries belong to a county or regional system, whose figures cover many towns.

B⁺Civic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteering

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Civic life grade

What Harrison Hot Springs’s civic life grade weighs

Harrison Hot Springs gets a B+ for civic life. A civic life grade needs two of its three inputs, and Harrison Hot Springs has charities and volunteering, though not library visits.

B⁺

Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Harrison Hot Springs’s overall grade.

–Library visitsNo library board of its own B⁻Charities0.9 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

2 registered charities are based in Harrison Hot Springs, by mailing address

That is 0.9 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.

Volunteering

36.9%

No town-level count exists, so the page uses British Columbia as a whole: 36.9% volunteered formally in 2023, between 35.2% and 38.7%, while the provinces span 25.2% to 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

Nearest libraries

The closest is 6.5 km from Harrison Hot Springs

In order of distance from the centre of Harrison Hot Springs, as the crow flies.

6.5kmAgassiz LibraryKentWebsite →16kmAgassiz LibraryElectoral Area C, Fraser ValleyDirections →19kmFVRL: Chilliwack LibraryChilliwackWebsite →25kmFVRL: Sardis LibraryChilliwackWebsite →27kmFVRL: Hope LibraryHopeWebsite →

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

Library locations. Only public libraries are mapped: OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, with school and university libraries removed.

Questions about the library and civic life in Harrison Hot Springs

Does Harrison Hot Springs have a public library?

Not in Harrison Hot Springs: the nearest public library is Agassiz Library, in Kent.

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).