At 3.4 visits per person served, Surrey Public Library is quieter 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, Sullivan 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 Sullivan’s civic life grade
Sullivan gets a C+ for civic life, #208 of 254 towns graded in British Columbia. Sullivan 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 Sullivan 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. 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%
The 2023 survey gives British Columbia one volunteering rate for all its towns, 36.9% (between 35.2% and 38.7%), while provinces run from 25.2% at the low end to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Behind most of British Columbia’s town libraries on all 2 measures
Measured per person served against the 32 town libraries of British Columbia’s 2025 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 6,587 visits a day
What Surrey Public Library counted in 2025, as the library reported it.
The nearest library is 1.9 km from Sullivan
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Sullivan.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The map joins OpenStreetMap with Statistics Canada’s 2020 cultural facilities list and leaves out school, college and private libraries.
Questions about the library and civic life in Sullivan
Does Sullivan have a public library?
There isn’t one in Sullivan; people there use libraries such as 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).