Photo: Tmv · CC BY-SA 4.0Surrey Public Library logs 3.4 visits per person served, fewer than 76% of British Columbia’s town libraries
Anderson Walk 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 ColumbiaAnderson Walk’s civic life grade, input by input
With a C+, Anderson Walk ranks #208 of 254 British Columbia towns on civic life. Anderson Walk 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.
Surrey mailing addresses hold 697 registered charities
There is no count for Anderson Walk 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. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.
36.9%
For 2023, the provincial survey estimates that 36.9% of people in British Columbia volunteered formally (likely 35.2% to 38.7%); among the ten provinces the rate goes from 25.2% to 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.
Some 6,587 visits on an average day
Everything counted at Surrey Public Library in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
The closest is 3.3 km from Anderson Walk
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Anderson Walk.
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 Anderson Walk
Does Anderson Walk have a public library?
No library is mapped inside Anderson Walk, and the nearest one is SPL: Semiahmoo Branch in Semiahmoo Town Centre.
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).