Photo: Gavin Schaefer from Halifax, Canada · CC BY 2.0Hastings-Sunrise’s public library is VPL: Hastings Branch
The library figures on this page are Vancouver’s: Vancouver Public Library serves all 742,394 people of the city, Hastings-Sunrise among them. It counted 6.5 in-person visits per person served in 2025. The figures come from British Columbia’s public library statistics for 2025, as the library filed them.
A−Civic life#34 of 254 in British ColumbiaBehind Hastings-Sunrise’s civic life grade
Hastings-Sunrise gets a A− for civic life, #34 of 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 Hastings-Sunrise.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
1,798 registered charities give a Vancouver mailing address
There is no count for Hastings-Sunrise on its own: the charities are those of all of Vancouver. Per 1,000 residents that makes 2.4; 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.
36.9%
Statistics Canada puts formal volunteering in British Columbia at 36.9% in 2023, somewhere between 35.2% and 38.7%, for every town in the province alike; provinces range from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of British Columbia’s town libraries on all 2 measures
Each figure is per person served, set against 32 town libraries in British Columbia’s statistics for 2025.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
Some 13,208 visits on an average day
The year 2025 at Vancouver Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Hastings-Sunrise’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Hastings-Sunrise.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Visitors and people from nearby towns are in the count too; how many live in Hastings-Sunrise isn’t recorded.
Questions about the library and civic life in Hastings-Sunrise
Does Hastings-Sunrise have a public library?
Yes: VPL: Hastings Branch.
How busy is Vancouver Public Library?
It counted 4,820,937 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).