Photo: Northwest · CC BY-SA 4.0Brentwood has no public library of its own; the nearest is Tommy Douglas Branch, 1.7 km away
The library figures on this page are Burnaby’s: Burnaby Public Library serves all 299,682 people of the city, Brentwood among them. Visits ran to 5.1 per person served in 2025. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to British Columbia’s public library statistics.
BCivic life#156 of 254 in British ColumbiaWhat Brentwood’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Brentwood grades B: #156 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 Brentwood.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
365 registered charities are based in Burnaby, by mailing address
There is no count for Brentwood on its own: the charities are those of all of Burnaby. It works out to 1.2 per 1,000 residents, where the typical British Columbia town has 1.2 and Canada’s 1.4. 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%
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.
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.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
Some 4,225 visits on an average day
What Burnaby Public Library counted in 2025, as the library reported it.
The closest is 1.7 km from Brentwood
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Brentwood.
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 Brentwood
Does Brentwood have a public library?
No library is mapped inside Brentwood, and the nearest one is Tommy Douglas Branch in Heights.
How busy is Burnaby Public Library?
It counted 1,541,976 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).