Photo: honkie6367 · CC BY-SA 3.0Surrey Public Library draws 3.4 visits per person served, behind 76% of British Columbia’s town libraries
Fraser Heights is served by Surrey Public Library, the library of all of Surrey, so the figures here are the city’s, for 703,615 people. The figures come from British Columbia’s public library statistics for 2025, as the library filed them.
C+Civic life#208 of 254 in British ColumbiaBehind Fraser Heights’s civic life grade
Fraser Heights gets a C+ for civic life, #208 of 254 towns graded in British Columbia. All three civic life inputs exist for Fraser Heights: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Surrey mailing addresses hold 697 registered charities
There is no count for Fraser Heights on its own: the charities are those of all of Surrey. It works out to 1 per 1,000 residents, where the typical British Columbia town has 1.2 and Canada’s 1.4. 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.
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.
Behind most of British Columbia’s town libraries on all 2 measures
Per person served, against the 32 town libraries in British Columbia’s 2025 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 6,587 visits a day
What Surrey Public Library counted in 2025, as the library reported it.
The nearest library is 2.5 km from Fraser Heights
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Fraser Heights.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Public library locations are taken from OpenStreetMap and a 2020 Statistics Canada inventory, merged where both list one place.
Questions about the library and civic life in Fraser Heights
Does Fraser Heights have a public library?
The map shows none in Fraser Heights; SL: Guildford Branch, in Guildford, is the closest.
How busy is Surrey Public Library?
It counted 2,404,116 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).