Surrey Public Library logs 3.4 visits per person served, fewer than 76% of British Columbia’s town libraries
The library figures on this page are Surrey’s: Surrey Public Library serves all 703,615 people of the city, Clayton Heights among them. These are 2025 figures, the library’s own yearly return to British Columbia’s statistics.
C+Civic life#208 of 254 in British ColumbiaWhat Clayton Heights’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Clayton Heights grades C+: #208 of the 254 towns graded in British Columbia. All three civic life inputs exist for Clayton Heights: 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 are based in Surrey, by mailing address
There is no count for Clayton Heights on its own: the charities are those of all of Surrey. It works out to 1 per 1,000 residents, where the typical British Columbia town has 1.2 and Canada’s 1.4. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
36.9%
Volunteering here is a provincial number: 36.9% of people across British Columbia in 2023, likely 35.2% to 38.7%, set in a ten-province range of 25.2% to 40.3%.
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
What Surrey Public Library counted in 2025, as the library reported it.
The nearest library is 0.7 km from Clayton Heights
In order of distance from the centre of Clayton Heights, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. A library listed by both OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada appears once; campus, school and private ones are left off.
Questions about the library and civic life in Clayton Heights
Does Clayton Heights have a public library?
Not within Clayton Heights itself: the closest 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).