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Libraries · Bruderheim

Each person Metro Kalyn Community Library serves borrows 0.6 items, fewer than at 98% of Alberta’s town libraries

A single building, Metro Kalyn Community Library, serves 1,395 people. Visits ran to 0.4 per person served in 2022. Alberta’s open library statistics stop at 2022, so these are its 2022 figures.

BCivic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteering
Visits a year
627
0.4 per person served
Borrowed a year
902
0.6 per person served
Cardholders
6%
86 cards
Libraries
1
Charities
5
3.5 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

What Bruderheim’s civic life grade weighs

Bruderheim gets a B for civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Bruderheim: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.

B
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Bruderheim’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

5 registered charities are based in Bruderheim, by mailing address

Per 1,000 residents that makes 3.5; 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%

No town-level count exists, so the page uses Alberta as a whole: 37.1% volunteered formally in 2023, between 35.1% and 39.2%, while the provinces span 25.2% to 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 0.4 visits · typical 3.6Bottom 10%
Loans per person served 0.6 items · typical 8.1Bottom 10%
Cardholders 6% of people served · typical 20%Bottom 10%
Fewer per personMore per person
Who is compared

Town libraries only; regional systems left out.

A year at the library

Some 2 visits on an average day

The year 2022 at Metro Kalyn Community Library, in the library’s own counts.

627
in-person visits
0.4 per person served
902
items borrowed
0.6 per person served
86
cardholders
6% of people served
Every week12visits
Every day2items borrowed
1,395 people served
The libraries

Bruderheim’s public library

In order of distance from the centre of Bruderheim, as the crow flies.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Library locations. A library listed by both OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada appears once; campus, school and private ones are left off.

Questions about the library and civic life in Bruderheim

Does Bruderheim have a public library?

Yes: Metro Kalyn Community Library.

How busy is Metro Kalyn Community Library?

It counted 627 in-person visits and lent 902 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).