Photo: Darren Kirby Darren Kirby · CC BY-SA 2.0Metrotown has one public library, Bob Prittie Metrotown Branch
Metrotown 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 2025 figures are what the library reported to British Columbia’s public library statistics.
BCivic life#156 of 254 in British ColumbiaBehind Metrotown’s civic life grade
Civic life in Metrotown grades B: #156 of the 254 towns graded in British Columbia. Metrotown 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 are based in Burnaby, by mailing address
There is no count for Metrotown 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%
Between 35.2% and 38.7% of people in British Columbia volunteered formally in 2023, 36.9% at the estimate’s middle; that is one figure for the province, which ranges from 25.2% to 40.3% nationally.
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.
Metrotown’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Metrotown.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Public library locations are taken from OpenStreetMap and a 2020 Statistics Canada inventory, merged where both list one place.
Questions about the library and civic life in Metrotown
Does Metrotown have a public library?
Yes: Bob Prittie Metrotown Branch.
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).