Photo: waferboard · CC BY 2.0Surrey Libraries logs 3.4 visits per person served, fewer than 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, Fleetwood among them. The figures come from British Columbia’s public library statistics for 2025, as the library filed them.
C+Civic life#208 of 254 in British ColumbiaBehind Fleetwood’s civic life grade
Fleetwood gets a C+ for civic life, #208 of 254 towns graded in British Columbia. Fleetwood 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 Fleetwood 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%
Statistics Canada puts formal volunteering in British Columbia at 36.9% in 2023, somewhere between 35.2% and 38.7%, for every town in the province alike; provinces range from 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.
Some 6,587 visits on an average day
Everything counted at Surrey Libraries in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
Fleetwood’s 2 public libraries
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Fleetwood.
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 Fleetwood
Does Fleetwood have a public library?
Yes, 2: SL: Fleetwood Branch and Port Kells.
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).