Photo: Unknown author Unknown author · Public domainMore loans per person served than 94% of Alberta’s town libraries: Jim & Mary Kearl Library of Cardston lends 16
Jim & Mary Kearl Library of Cardston has one location for the 3,909 people it serves. It counted 6.4 in-person visits per person served in 2022. The figures are for 2022, the latest year Alberta has published openly.
ACivic life#10 of 474 in AlbertaBehind Cardston’s civic life grade
Civic life in Cardston grades A: #10 of the 474 towns graded in Alberta. All three civic life inputs exist for Cardston: 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.
Cardston mailing addresses hold 14 registered charities
It works out to 3.6 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%
In 2023, 37.1% of people in Alberta volunteered formally: one estimate for the whole province, likely between 35.1% and 39.2%, in a range of 25.2% to 40.3% across the ten provinces.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Alberta’s town libraries on 2 of 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.
Some 69 visits on an average day
Everything counted at Jim & Mary Kearl Library of Cardston in 2022: visits, loans and cards.
Cardston’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Cardston.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A library’s visits include people from neighbouring towns and visitors; the statistics don’t say how many come from Cardston itself.
Questions about the library and civic life in Cardston
Does Cardston have a public library?
Yes: Jim & Mary Kearl Library of Cardston.
How busy is Jim & Mary Kearl Library of Cardston?
The 2022 totals: 25,053 in-person visits, 62,618 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).