Photo: Kenny Louie from Vancouver, Canada · CC BY 2.0Buckingham Heights has no public library of its own; the nearest is BPL: Tommy Douglas Library, 1.4 km away
Burnaby Public Library serves the whole of Burnaby, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 299,682 people, Buckingham Heights among them. It counted 5.1 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.
BCivic life#156 of 254 in British ColumbiaBuckingham Heights’s civic life grade, input by input
Buckingham Heights gets a B for civic life, #156 of 254 towns graded in British Columbia. Buckingham Heights has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
365 registered charities give a Burnaby mailing address
There is no count for Buckingham Heights 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. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
36.9%
In 2023, 36.9% of people in British Columbia volunteered formally: one estimate for the whole province, likely between 35.2% and 38.7%, in a range of 25.2% to 40.3% across the ten provinces.
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
Everything counted at Burnaby Public Library in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
The closest is 1.4 km from Buckingham Heights
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Buckingham Heights.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Two sources make the map, OpenStreetMap and a 2020 Statistics Canada list, with academic and private libraries dropped.
Questions about the library and civic life in Buckingham Heights
Does Buckingham Heights have a public library?
None is mapped in Buckingham Heights; the nearest is BPL: Tommy Douglas Library, in Edmonds.
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).