Photo: Grahamcoutts · CC BY-SA 4.0Garden Village has no public library of its own; the nearest is Bob Prittie Metrotown Branch, 1.2 km away
The library figures on this page are Burnaby’s: Burnaby Public Library serves all 299,682 people of the city, Garden Village among them. In 2025 it logged 5.1 visits for every person it serves. The figures come from British Columbia’s public library statistics for 2025, as the library filed them.
BCivic life#156 of 254 in British ColumbiaBehind Garden Village’s civic life grade
Garden Village gets a B for civic life, #156 of 254 towns graded in British Columbia. Garden Village 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 Garden Village 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 1.2 km from Garden Village
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Garden Village.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The points are public libraries only, drawn from OpenStreetMap and from Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020).
Questions about the library and civic life in Garden Village
Does Garden Village have a public library?
The map shows none in Garden Village; Bob Prittie Metrotown Branch, in Metrotown, 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).