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Libraries · Beaumont

Beaumont has one public library, Beaumont Public Library

Beaumont Public Library has one location for the 19,236 people it serves. Its borrowers took out 6.6 items per person served in 2022. The figures are for 2022, the latest year Alberta has published openly.

C+Civic life#465 of 474 in Alberta
Visits a year
56,054
2.9 per person served
Borrowed a year
126,088
6.6 per person served
Cardholders
17%
3,227 cards
Libraries
1
Charities
14
0.5 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

Behind Beaumont’s civic life grade

With a C+, Beaumont ranks #465 of 474 Alberta towns on civic life. Beaumont has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.

C+
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Beaumont’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

Beaumont mailing addresses hold 14 registered charities

Per 1,000 residents that makes 0.5; the median is 1.3 for Alberta 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.

Volunteering

37.1%

Formal volunteering is measured only for the province: 37.1% of Alberta’s people in 2023, give or take (35.1% to 39.2%), with the provinces between 25.2% and 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

How it compares

Behind most of Alberta’s town libraries on all 3 measures

Per person served, against the 118 town libraries in Alberta’s 2022 statistics.

Visits per person served 2.9 visits · typical 3.6Lower than 66%
Loans per person served 6.6 items · typical 8.1Lower than 65%
Cardholders 17% of people served · typical 20%Lower than 66%
Fewer per personMore per person
Who is compared

Town libraries only; regional systems left out.

A year at the library

About 154 visits a day

Everything counted at Beaumont Public Library in 2022: visits, loans and cards.

56,054
in-person visits
2.9 per person served
126,088
items borrowed
6.6 per person served
3,227
cardholders
17% of people served
Every week1,078visits
Every day345items borrowed
19,236 people served
The libraries

Beaumont’s public library

Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Beaumont.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Per person served. Rather than Beaumont’s census count, the rates use the population the library board says it serves.

Questions about the library and civic life in Beaumont

Does Beaumont have a public library?

Yes: Beaumont Public Library.

How busy is Beaumont Public Library?

Over 2022: 126,088 items out on loan, 56,054 visits through the door.

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).