Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Bassano has one public library, Bassano Memorial Library
Bassano Memorial Library has one location for the 1,206 people it serves. 8.8 items per person served went out on loan in 2022. The figures are for 2022, the latest year Alberta has published openly.
B+Civic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteeringBehind Bassano’s civic life grade
Civic life in Bassano grades B+. Bassano 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.
5 registered charities give a Bassano mailing address
It works out to 3.6 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Alberta town has 1.3 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.
37.1%
The whole province shares one estimate: 37.1% of people in Alberta volunteered formally in 2023 (between 35.1% and 39.2%), where the ten provinces run from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Alberta’s town libraries on 2 of 3 measures
Measured per person served against the 118 town libraries of Alberta’s 2022 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
Some 12 visits on an average day
The year 2022 at Bassano Memorial Library, in the library’s own counts.
Bassano’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Bassano, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. A library listed by both OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada appears once; campus, school and private ones are left off.
Questions about the library and civic life in Bassano
Does Bassano have a public library?
Yes: Bassano Memorial Library.
How busy is Bassano Memorial Library?
In 2022 it logged 4,250 in-person visits and 10,647 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).