Surrey Public Library draws 3.4 visits per person served, behind 76% of British Columbia’s town libraries
Aloha Estates is served by Surrey Public Library, the library of all of Surrey, so the figures here are the city’s, for 703,615 people. These are 2025 figures, the library’s own yearly return to British Columbia’s statistics.
C+Civic life#208 of 254 in British ColumbiaAloha Estates’s civic life grade, input by input
Aloha Estates gets a C+ for civic life, #208 of 254 towns graded in British Columbia. All three civic life inputs exist for Aloha Estates: 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.
697 registered charities give a Surrey mailing address
There is no count for Aloha Estates on its own: the charities are those of all of Surrey. Per 1,000 residents that makes 1; the median is 1.2 for British Columbia towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
36.9%
Across British Columbia, 36.9% of people volunteered through an organization in 2023, a provincial estimate with a likely range of 35.2% to 38.7%; the lowest province sits at 25.2% and the highest at 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Behind most of British Columbia’s town libraries on all 2 measures
Measured per person served against the 32 town libraries of British Columbia’s 2025 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 6,587 visits a day
What Surrey Public Library counted in 2025, as the library reported it.
The nearest library is 1.6 km from Aloha Estates
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Aloha Estates.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Two sources make the map, OpenStreetMap and a 2020 Statistics Canada list, with academic and private libraries dropped.
Questions about the library and civic life in Aloha Estates
Does Aloha Estates have a public library?
Aloha Estates has none mapped; the closest public library is SL: Clayton Branch, in Provinceton.
How busy is Surrey Public Library?
It counted 2,404,116 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).