Photo: Clee7903 · CC BY-SA 4.0Fewer visits per person served than 76% of British Columbia’s town libraries: Surrey Public Library counts 3.4
The library figures on this page are Surrey’s: Surrey Public Library serves all 703,615 people of the city, Johnston 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 ColumbiaJohnston Heights’s civic life grade, input by input
Johnston Heights gets a C+ for civic life, #208 of 254 towns graded in British Columbia. Johnston Heights 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 Johnston Heights 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%
36.9% of people in British Columbia did formal volunteering in 2023, a province-wide estimate between 35.2% and 38.7%; across the ten provinces the rate runs from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Behind most of British Columbia’s town libraries on all 2 measures
Each figure is per person served, set against 32 town libraries in British Columbia’s statistics for 2025.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
Some 6,587 visits on an average day
Everything counted at Surrey Public Library in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
The closest is 1.3 km from Johnston Heights
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Johnston Heights.
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 Johnston Heights
Does Johnston Heights have a public library?
Not in Johnston Heights: the nearest public library is SL: Guildford Branch, in Guildford.
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).