Photo: D. Mulligan · CC BY-SA 3.0Each person Public Library of Canmore serves borrows 16.7 items, more than at 94% of Alberta’s town libraries
Public Library of Canmore serves 13,992 people from a single building. 6.7 visits per person served came through its doors in 2022. Alberta’s open library statistics stop at 2022, so these are its 2022 figures.
ACivic life#7 of 474 in AlbertaBehind Canmore’s civic life grade
Civic life in Canmore grades A: #7 of the 474 towns graded in Alberta. All three civic life inputs exist for Canmore: 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.
50 registered charities give a Canmore mailing address
That is 2.9 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%
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 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 255 visits a day
Everything counted at Public Library of Canmore in 2022: visits, loans and cards.
Canmore’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Canmore.
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 Canmore.
- Per person served. The per-person figures use the library’s own service population, not the census count for Canmore.
Questions about the library and civic life in Canmore
Does Canmore have a public library?
Yes: Public Library of Canmore.
How busy is Public Library of Canmore?
People made 93,200 visits in person and borrowed 233,203 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).