Photo: Buchanan-Hermit · Public domainSurrey Libraries draws 3.4 visits per person served, behind 76% of British Columbia’s town libraries
Surrey Libraries serves the whole of Surrey, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 703,615 people, Cloverdale 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 ColumbiaCloverdale’s civic life grade, input by input
With a C+, Cloverdale ranks #208 of 254 British Columbia towns on civic life. A civic life grade combines library visits per resident, registered charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate, and all three exist for Cloverdale.
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 Cloverdale 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%
Formal volunteering is measured only for the province: 36.9% of British Columbia’s people in 2023, give or take (35.2% to 38.7%), with the provinces between 25.2% and 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.
Some 6,587 visits on an average day
The year 2025 at Surrey Libraries, in the library’s own counts.
Cloverdale’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Cloverdale.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Only public libraries are mapped: OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, with school and university libraries removed.
Questions about the library and civic life in Cloverdale
Does Cloverdale have a public library?
Yes: SL: Cloverdale 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).