The nearest public library to Highlands is GVPL: Central Saanich Branch, 6.6 km away

The next is GVPL: Goudy Branch (Langford), 9.7 km away. Its libraries report as part of a wider system, so there are no figures for Highlands in particular.

B⁺Civic life#134 of 254 in British Columbia

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Civic life grade

What Highlands’s civic life grade weighs

With a B+, Highlands ranks #134 of 254 British Columbia towns on civic life. A civic life grade needs two of its three inputs, and Highlands has charities and volunteering, though not library visits.

B⁺

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

–Library visitsNo library board of its own B⁻Charities0 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

No registered charity gives a Highlands mailing address

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%

36.9% of people in British Columbia did formal volunteering in 2023, a province-wide estimate between 35.2% and 38.7%; across the ten provinces the rate runs from 25.2% to 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

Nearest libraries

The nearest library is 6.6 km from Highlands

Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Highlands.

6.6kmGVPL: Central Saanich BranchCentral SaanichDirections →9.7kmGVPL: Goudy BranchLangfordWebsite →10kmGreater Victoria Public Library - Bruce Hutchison BranchSaanichWebsite →10kmGVPL: Langford Heritage BranchLangfordWebsite →10kmGVPL: Juan de Fuca BranchColwoodWebsite →

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

Library locations. OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020), merged; school, college, hospital and private libraries are left out.

Questions about the library and civic life in Highlands

Does Highlands have a public library?

Highlands has none mapped; the closest public library is GVPL: Central Saanich Branch, in Central Saanich.

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).