Photo: 4300streetcar · CC BY 4.0Surrey Public Library draws 3.4 visits per person served, behind 76% of British Columbia’s town libraries
The library figures on this page are Surrey’s: Surrey Public Library serves all 703,615 people of the city, Port Mann 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 ColumbiaBehind Port Mann’s civic life grade
Civic life in Port Mann grades C+: #208 of the 254 towns graded in British Columbia. Port Mann 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 Port Mann on its own: the charities are those of all of Surrey. It works out to 1 per 1,000 residents, where the typical British Columbia town has 1.2 and Canada’s 1.4. 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 whole province shares one estimate: 36.9% of people in British Columbia volunteered formally in 2023 (between 35.2% and 38.7%), where the ten provinces run 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
The year 2025 at Surrey Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
The nearest library is 2 km from Port Mann
In order of distance from the centre of Port Mann, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020), merged; school, college, hospital and private libraries are left out.
Questions about the library and civic life in Port Mann
Does Port Mann have a public library?
The map shows none in Port Mann; SL: City Centre Branch, in Whalley, is the closest.
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).