Photo: Madereugeneandrew · CC BY-SA 4.0Servus Credit Union Public Library - Blackfalds Library is Blackfalds’s public library
A single building, Servus Credit Union Public Library - Blackfalds Library, serves 10,125 people. Loans ran to 7.7 items per person served in 2022. The figures are for 2022, the latest year Alberta has published openly.
B−Civic life#441 of 474 in AlbertaWhat Blackfalds’s civic life grade weighs
Blackfalds gets a B− for civic life, #441 of 474 towns graded in Alberta. Blackfalds 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.
Blackfalds mailing addresses hold 7 registered charities
It works out to 0.6 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Alberta town has 1.3 and Canada’s 1.4. The CRA files each charity under its mailing address, so a service town collects its region’s charities and a suburb or rural municipality few.
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.
Ahead of most of Alberta’s town libraries on 1 of 3 measures
Per person served, against the 118 town libraries in Alberta’s 2022 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
Some 107 visits on an average day
The year 2022 at Servus Credit Union Public Library - Blackfalds Library, in the library’s own counts.
Blackfalds’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Blackfalds.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Per person served. Per-person rates rest on the service area the library reports, which may be larger or smaller than Blackfalds itself.
Questions about the library and civic life in Blackfalds
Does Blackfalds have a public library?
Yes: Servus Credit Union Public Library - Blackfalds Library.
How busy is Servus Credit Union Public Library - Blackfalds Library?
It counted 39,210 in-person visits and lent 77,631 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).