Photo: waferboard · CC BY 2.0Surrey Public Library logs 3.4 visits per person served, fewer than 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, Panorama Ridge among them. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to British Columbia’s public library statistics.
C+Civic life#208 of 254 in British ColumbiaWhat Panorama Ridge’s civic life grade weighs
Panorama Ridge gets a C+ for civic life, #208 of 254 towns graded in British Columbia. 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 Panorama Ridge.
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 Panorama Ridge 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. 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%
One figure covers all of British Columbia: in 2023, 36.9% of its people gave time to an organization (between 35.2% and 38.7%), against a provincial range of 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
The year 2025 at Surrey Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
The closest is 1.7 km from Panorama Ridge
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Panorama Ridge.
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 Panorama Ridge
Does Panorama Ridge have a public library?
None is mapped in Panorama Ridge; the nearest is SL: Newton Branch, in Newton.
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).