More visits per person served than 81% of Alberta’s town libraries: Bon Accord Library counts 6.1
Bon Accord Library serves 1,529 people from a single building. Its borrowers took out 9.2 items per person served 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 volunteeringWhat Bon Accord’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Bon Accord grades B+. Bon Accord 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.
Bon Accord mailing addresses hold 4 registered charities
That is 2.8 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%
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 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.
About 26 visits a day
The year 2022 at Bon Accord Library, in the library’s own counts.
The nearest library is 5.4 km from Bon Accord
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Bon Accord.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Tourists, commuters and neighbours all add to the visits, and nobody records which of them live in Bon Accord.
Questions about the library and civic life in Bon Accord
Does Bon Accord have a public library?
Bon Accord has none mapped; the closest public library is Gibbons Public Library, in Gibbons.
How busy is Bon Accord Library?
9,375 in-person visits and 14,130 items borrowed 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).