Photo: waferboard · CC BY 2.0Fewer visits per person served than 76% of British Columbia’s town libraries: Surrey Libraries counts 3.4
The library figures on this page are Surrey’s: Surrey Libraries serves all 703,615 people of the city, Anniedale among them. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to British Columbia’s public library statistics.
C+Civic life#208 of 254 in British ColumbiaBehind Anniedale’s civic life grade
With a C+, Anniedale ranks #208 of 254 British Columbia towns on civic life. Anniedale 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.
697 registered charities are based in Surrey, by mailing address
There is no count for Anniedale on its own: the charities are those of all of Surrey. That is 1 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%
In 2023, 36.9% of people in British Columbia volunteered formally: one estimate for the whole province, likely between 35.2% and 38.7%, in a range of 25.2% to 40.3% across the ten provinces.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Behind 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 6,587 visits a day
The year 2025 at Surrey Libraries, in the library’s own counts.
Anniedale’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Anniedale.
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 Anniedale
Does Anniedale have a public library?
Yes: SL: Port Kells Branch.
How busy is Surrey Libraries?
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).