Photo: Northwest · CC BY-SA 4.0Edmonds’s public library is BPL: Tommy Douglas Library
The library figures on this page are Burnaby’s: Burnaby Public Library serves all 299,682 people of the city, Edmonds among them. Visits ran to 5.1 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 ColumbiaWhat Edmonds’s civic life grade weighs
Edmonds gets a B for civic life, #156 of 254 towns graded in British Columbia. All three civic life inputs exist for Edmonds: 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 are based in Burnaby, by mailing address
There is no count for Edmonds 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. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
36.9%
One figure covers all of British Columbia: in 2023, 36.9% of its people gave time to an organization (between 35.2% and 38.7%), against a provincial 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.
Some 4,225 visits on an average day
Everything counted at Burnaby Public Library in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
Edmonds’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Edmonds.
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 Edmonds
Does Edmonds have a public library?
Yes: BPL: Tommy Douglas Library.
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).