Photo: Larry LaRose · CC BY-SA 3.0Surrey Public Library draws 3.4 visits per person served, behind 76% of British Columbia’s town libraries
Surrey Public Library serves the whole of Surrey, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 703,615 people, Colebrook 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 ColumbiaBehind Colebrook’s civic life grade
Colebrook gets a C+ for civic life, #208 of 254 towns graded in British Columbia. Colebrook 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 Colebrook 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. The CRA files each charity under its mailing address, so a service town collects its region’s charities and a suburb or rural municipality few.
36.9%
The 2023 survey gives British Columbia one volunteering rate for all its towns, 36.9% (between 35.2% and 38.7%), while provinces run from 25.2% at the low end 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.
About 6,587 visits a day
The year 2025 at Surrey Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
The nearest library is 3.5 km from Colebrook
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Colebrook.
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 Colebrook
Does Colebrook have a public library?
There isn’t one in Colebrook; people there use libraries such as SL: Strawberry Hill Barnch, in Strawberry Hill.
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).