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Libraries · Radium Hot Springs

Radium Hot Springs has two public libraries, Radium Hot Springs Public Library and Radium Hot Springs Public Library

radium hot springs public library has 2 branches for the 2,219 people it serves. Visits ran to 6.5 per person served in 2025. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to British Columbia’s public library statistics.

A−Civic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteering
Visits a year
14,363
6.5 per person served
Cardholders
39%
876 cards
Libraries
2
Charities
2
1.3 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

Radium Hot Springs’s civic life grade, input by input

Radium Hot Springs gets a A− for civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Radium Hot Springs: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.

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

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

2 registered charities give a Radium Hot Springs mailing address

Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.3; the median is 1.2 for British Columbia towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.

Volunteering

36.9%

For 2023, the provincial survey estimates that 36.9% of people in British Columbia volunteered formally (likely 35.2% to 38.7%); among the ten provinces the rate goes from 25.2% to 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

How it compares

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.

Visits per person served 6.5 visits · typical 5Higher than 69%
Cardholders 39% of people served · typical 39%Higher than 55%
Fewer per personMore per person
Who is compared

Town libraries only; regional systems left out.

A year at the library

Some 39 visits on an average day

Everything counted at radium hot springs public library in 2025: visits, loans and cards.

14,363
in-person visits
6.5 per person served
876
cardholders
39% of people served
Every week276visits
2,219 people served
The libraries

Radium Hot Springs’s 2 public libraries

Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Radium Hot Springs.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Per person served. Each rate divides by the people the library reports serving, which need not match Radium Hot Springs’s census population.

Questions about the library and civic life in Radium Hot Springs

Does Radium Hot Springs have a public library?

Yes, 2: Radium Hot Springs Public Library and Radium Hot Springs Public Library.

How busy is radium hot springs public library?

It counted 14,363 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).