Fewer visits per person served than 76% of British Columbia’s town libraries: Surrey Libraries counts 3.4
Surrey Libraries serves the whole of Surrey, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 703,615 people, Ocean Park 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 Ocean Park’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Ocean Park grades C+: #208 of the 254 towns graded in British Columbia. All three civic life inputs exist for Ocean Park: 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.
Surrey mailing addresses hold 697 registered charities
There is no count for Ocean Park 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%
For 2023, the provincial survey estimates that 36.9% of people in British Columbia volunteered formally (likely 35.2% to 38.7%); among the ten provinces the rate goes 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.
About 6,587 visits a day
What Surrey Libraries counted in 2025, as the library reported it.
Ocean Park’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Ocean Park.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The locations come from OpenStreetMap and from Statistics Canada’s cultural facilities list of 2020, public libraries only.
Questions about the library and civic life in Ocean Park
Does Ocean Park have a public library?
Yes: SL: Ocean Park 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).