Photo: Bplimley · CC BY-SA 4.0surrey public library logs 3.4 visits per person served, fewer than 76% of British Columbia’s town libraries
Surrey Centre is served by surrey public library, the library of all of Surrey, so the figures here are the city’s, for 703,615 people. The figures come from British Columbia’s public library statistics for 2025, as the library filed them.
C+Civic life#208 of 254 in British ColumbiaWhat Surrey Centre’s civic life grade weighs
Surrey Centre 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 Surrey Centre.
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 Surrey Centre 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%
In 2023, 36.9% of people in British Columbia volunteered formally: one estimate for the whole province, likely between 35.2% and 38.7%, in a range of 25.2% to 40.3% across the ten provinces.
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.
Surrey Centre’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Surrey Centre.
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 Surrey Centre
Does Surrey Centre have a public library?
Yes: Cloverdale.
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).