Photo: The Cosmonaut · CC BY-SA 2.5 caThe nearest public library to Burnaby Mountain is Cameron Library, 2.8 km away
The library figures on this page are Burnaby’s: Burnaby Public Library serves all 299,682 people of the city, Burnaby Mountain among them. 5.1 visits per person served came through its doors in 2025. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to British Columbia’s public library statistics.
BCivic life#156 of 254 in British ColumbiaBehind Burnaby Mountain’s civic life grade
Burnaby Mountain gets a B for civic life, #156 of 254 towns graded in British Columbia. All three civic life inputs exist for Burnaby Mountain: 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.
365 registered charities give a Burnaby mailing address
There is no count for Burnaby Mountain on its own: the charities are those of all of Burnaby. That is 1.2 per 1,000 residents, against 1.2 in the typical British Columbia town and 1.4 across Canada. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
36.9%
The whole province shares one estimate: 36.9% of people in British Columbia volunteered formally in 2023 (between 35.2% and 38.7%), where the ten provinces run 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 2.8 km from Burnaby Mountain
In order of distance from the centre of Burnaby Mountain, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Locations merge two sources, OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, without school, college or hospital libraries.
Questions about the library and civic life in Burnaby Mountain
Does Burnaby Mountain have a public library?
There isn’t one in Burnaby Mountain; people there use libraries such as Cameron Library, in Lougheed.
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).