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Libraries · Morgan Creek

At 3.4 visits per person served, Surrey Public Library is quieter than 76% of British Columbia’s town libraries

The library figures on this page are Surrey’s: Surrey Public Library serves all 703,615 people of the city, Morgan Creek among them. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to British Columbia’s public library statistics.

C+Civic life#208 of 254 in British Columbia
Visits a year
2,404,116
3.4 per person served
Cardholders
28%
199,925 cards
Charities
697
1 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

What Morgan Creek’s civic life grade weighs

Civic life in Morgan Creek grades C+: #208 of the 254 towns graded in British Columbia. A civic life grade combines library visits per resident, registered charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate, and all three exist for Morgan Creek.

C+
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Morgan Creek’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

697 registered charities are based in Surrey, by mailing address

There is no count for Morgan Creek on its own: the charities are those of all of Surrey. That is 1 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%

The whole province shares one estimate: 36.9% of people in British Columbia volunteered formally in 2023 (between 35.2% and 38.7%), where the ten provinces run from 25.2% to 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

How it compares

Behind 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 3.4 visits · typical 5Lower than 76%
Cardholders 28% of people served · typical 39%Lower than 73%
Fewer per personMore per person
Who is compared

Town libraries only; regional systems left out.

A year at the library

About 6,587 visits a day

The year 2025 at Surrey Public Library, in the library’s own counts.

2,404,116
in-person visits
3.4 per person served
199,925
cardholders
28% of people served
Every week46,233visits
703,615 people served
Nearest libraries

The nearest library is 3.4 km from Morgan Creek

In order of distance from the centre of Morgan Creek, as the crow flies.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Library locations. Statistics Canada’s 2020 facilities list and OpenStreetMap supply the points; libraries of schools, colleges and hospitals are not shown.

Questions about the library and civic life in Morgan Creek

Does Morgan Creek have a public library?

Not within Morgan Creek itself: the closest is SPL: Semiahmoo Branch, in Semiahmoo Town Centre.

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).