Photo: awmcphee · CC BY-SA 4.0Barrhead’s public library is Barrhead Public Library
Barrhead Public Library serves 10,867 people, more than Barrhead alone, so its figures cover the wider area. Its borrowers took out 7.8 items per person served in 2022. 2022 is the latest year in Alberta’s open library statistics, so the figures date from then.
ACivic life#29 of 474 in AlbertaWhat Barrhead’s civic life grade weighs
Barrhead gets a A for civic life, #29 of 474 towns graded in Alberta. Two of the three civic life inputs exist for Barrhead, enough for a grade: charities and volunteering, but not library visits.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Barrhead mailing addresses hold 36 registered charities
That is 7.6 per 1,000 residents, against 1.3 in the typical Alberta town and 1.4 across Canada. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.
37.1%
37.1% of people in Alberta did formal volunteering in 2023, a province-wide estimate between 35.1% and 39.2%; across the ten provinces the rate runs from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
About 71 visits a day
The year 2022 at Barrhead Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Barrhead’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Barrhead.
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 Barrhead
Does Barrhead have a public library?
Yes: Barrhead Public Library.
How busy is Barrhead Public Library?
It counted 26,057 in-person visits and lent 84,633 items in 2022.
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).