Photo: Grant Berg · CC BY-SA 3.0At 0.4 visits per person served, Tiny Tots Community Library is quieter than 95% of Alberta’s town libraries
The 1,553 people Tiny Tots Community Library serves have 2 branches to choose from. 1.4 items per person served went out on loan in 2022. 2022 is the latest year in Alberta’s open library statistics, so the figures date from then.
B−Civic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteeringBehind Birch Hills County’s civic life grade
Birch Hills County gets a B− for civic life. 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 Birch Hills County.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
No registered charity gives a Birch Hills County mailing address
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 2023 survey gives Alberta one volunteering rate for all its towns, 37.1% (between 35.1% and 39.2%), while provinces run from 25.2% at the low end to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Behind most of Alberta’s town libraries on all 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 2 visits on an average day
What Tiny Tots Community Library counted in 2022, as the library reported it.
Birch Hills County’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Birch Hills County.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The points are public libraries only, drawn from OpenStreetMap and from Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020).
Questions about the library and civic life in Birch Hills County
Does Birch Hills County have a public library?
Yes: Tiny Tots Community Library.
How busy is Tiny Tots Community Library?
In 2022 it logged 550 in-person visits and 2,240 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).