Photo: formulanone · CC BY-SA 2.0At 2.4 visits per person served, Airdrie Public Library is quieter than 75% of Alberta’s town libraries
Airdrie Public Library has one location for the 70,564 people it serves. 8.2 items per person served went out on loan in 2022. The figures are for 2022, the latest year Alberta has published openly.
C+Civic life#465 of 474 in AlbertaWhat Airdrie’s civic life grade weighs
Airdrie gets a C+ for civic life, #465 of 474 towns graded in Alberta. All three civic life inputs exist for Airdrie: 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.
90 registered charities give a Airdrie mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 1; the median is 1.3 for Alberta towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
37.1%
Volunteering here is a provincial number: 37.1% of people across Alberta in 2023, likely 35.1% to 39.2%, set in a ten-province range of 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Alberta’s town libraries on 2 of 3 measures
Each figure is per person served, set against 118 town libraries in Alberta’s statistics for 2022.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
Some 466 visits on an average day
Everything counted at Airdrie Public Library in 2022: visits, loans and cards.
Airdrie’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Airdrie, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Per person served. Each rate divides by the people the library reports serving, which need not match Airdrie’s census population.
Questions about the library and civic life in Airdrie
Does Airdrie have a public library?
Yes: Airdrie Public Library.
How busy is Airdrie Public Library?
In 2022 it logged 170,047 in-person visits and 581,447 loans.
Library statistics: Alberta public library statistics, 2022. 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).