Photo: The Cosmonaut · CC BY-SA 2.5 caThe nearest public library to Lochdale is Tommy Douglas Branch, 2.9 km away
The library figures on this page are Burnaby’s: Burnaby Public Library serves all 299,682 people of the city, Lochdale among them. In 2025 it logged 5.1 visits for every person it serves. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to British Columbia’s public library statistics.
BCivic life#156 of 254 in British ColumbiaWhat Lochdale’s civic life grade weighs
Lochdale gets a B for civic life, #156 of 254 towns graded in British Columbia. A civic life grade combines library visits per resident, registered charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate, and all three exist for Lochdale.
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 Lochdale 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. 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%
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
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 2.9 km from Lochdale
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Lochdale.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020), merged; school, college, hospital and private libraries are left out.
Questions about the library and civic life in Lochdale
Does Lochdale have a public library?
Not within Lochdale itself: the closest is Tommy Douglas Branch, in Heights.
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).