Photo: Jason Woodhead · CC BY 2.0Each person Bow Island Library serves borrows 13.8 items, more than at 88% of Alberta’s town libraries
Bow Island Library has one location for the 2,043 people it serves. Visits ran to 2.6 per person served in 2022. Alberta’s open library statistics stop at 2022, so these are its 2022 figures.
B−Civic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteeringWhat Bow Island’s civic life grade weighs
Bow Island’s civic life grade is B−. All three civic life inputs exist for Bow Island: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Bow Island mailing addresses hold 12 registered charities
Per 1,000 residents that makes 5.2; the median is 1.3 for Alberta towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
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.
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 15 visits on an average day
What Bow Island Library counted in 2022, as the library reported it.
The closest is 23 km from Bow Island
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Bow Island.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020), merged; school, college, hospital and private libraries are left out.
Questions about the library and civic life in Bow Island
Does Bow Island have a public library?
No library is mapped inside Bow Island, and the nearest one is Picture Butte Municipal Library in Taber.
How busy is Bow Island Library?
In 2022 it logged 5,321 in-person visits and 28,288 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).