Photo: Britcruise · CC BY-SA 3.0Burns Lake Public Library is Burns Lake’s public library
Burns Lake Public Library reports for 6,106 people, a wider area than Burns Lake, and its figures cover all of them. In 2025 it logged 4.2 visits for every person it serves. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to British Columbia’s public library statistics.
ACivic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteeringBurns Lake’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Burns Lake grades A. A civic life grade needs two of its three inputs, and Burns Lake has charities and volunteering, though not library visits.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Burns Lake mailing addresses hold 21 registered charities
That is 10.5 per 1,000 residents, against 1.2 in the typical British Columbia town and 1.4 across Canada. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
36.9%
No town-level count exists, so the page uses British Columbia as a whole: 36.9% volunteered formally in 2023, between 35.2% and 38.7%, while the provinces span 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
About 69 visits a day
What Burns Lake Public Library counted in 2025, as the library reported it.
Burns Lake’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Burns Lake, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Locations merge two sources, OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, without school, college or hospital libraries.
Questions about the library and civic life in Burns Lake
Does Burns Lake have a public library?
Yes: Burns Lake Public Library.
How busy is Burns Lake Public Library?
It counted 25,342 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).