Photo: Yuet Man Lee · CC BY-SA 4.0Broadview has no public library of its own; the nearest is BCIT Library, 1.3 km away
Broadview is served by Burnaby Public Library, the library of all of Burnaby, so the figures here are the city’s, for 299,682 people. In 2025 it logged 5.1 visits for every person it serves. These are 2025 figures, the library’s own yearly return to British Columbia’s statistics.
BCivic life#156 of 254 in British ColumbiaBehind Broadview’s civic life grade
With a B, Broadview ranks #156 of 254 British Columbia towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Broadview: 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.
Burnaby mailing addresses hold 365 registered charities
There is no count for Broadview on its own: the charities are those of all of Burnaby. Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.2; the median is 1.2 for British Columbia towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. 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%
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.
About 4,225 visits a day
The year 2025 at Burnaby Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
The nearest library is 1.3 km from Broadview
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Broadview.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The locations come from OpenStreetMap and from Statistics Canada’s cultural facilities list of 2020, public libraries only.
Questions about the library and civic life in Broadview
Does Broadview have a public library?
The map shows none in Broadview; BCIT Library, in Deer Lake, is the closest.
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).