The nearest public library to East Burnaby is Main Branch, 1.8 km away
East Burnaby is served by Burnaby Public Library, the library of all of Burnaby, so the figures here are the city’s, for 299,682 people. 5.1 visits per person served came through its doors in 2025. These are 2025 figures, the library’s own yearly return to British Columbia’s statistics.
BCivic life#156 of 254 in British ColumbiaWhat East Burnaby’s civic life grade weighs
East Burnaby gets a B for civic life, #156 of 254 towns graded in British Columbia. All three civic life inputs exist for East Burnaby: 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 East Burnaby 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. 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%
Volunteering here is a provincial number: 36.9% of people across British Columbia in 2023, likely 35.2% to 38.7%, set in a ten-province range of 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of British Columbia’s town libraries on all 2 measures
Per person served, against the 32 town libraries in British Columbia’s 2025 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 4,225 visits a day
Everything counted at Burnaby Public Library in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
The nearest library is 1.8 km from East Burnaby
In order of distance from the centre of East Burnaby, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. A library listed by both OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada appears once; campus, school and private ones are left off.
Questions about the library and civic life in East Burnaby
Does East Burnaby have a public library?
East Burnaby has none mapped; the closest public library is Main Branch, in New Westminster.
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).