Photo: Northwest · CC BY 4.0At 3.4 visits per person served, Surrey Libraries is quieter than 76% of British Columbia’s town libraries
Surrey Libraries serves the whole of Surrey, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 703,615 people, Semiahmoo Town Centre among them. 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 ColumbiaWhat Semiahmoo Town Centre’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Semiahmoo Town Centre grades C+: #208 of the 254 towns graded in British Columbia. All three civic life inputs exist for Semiahmoo Town Centre: 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.
697 registered charities are based in Surrey, by mailing address
There is no count for Semiahmoo Town Centre 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. 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%
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.
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.
Some 6,587 visits on an average day
Everything counted at Surrey Libraries in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
Semiahmoo Town Centre’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Semiahmoo Town Centre.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. A library listed by both OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada appears once; campus, school and private ones are left off.
Questions about the library and civic life in Semiahmoo Town Centre
Does Semiahmoo Town Centre have a public library?
Yes: SPL: Semiahmoo Branch.
How busy is Surrey Libraries?
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).