Photo: Rural Health Professions Action Plan from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada · CC BY 2.0Carstairs Library lends 13.3 items per person served, more than 84% of Alberta’s town libraries
Carstairs Library has 2 branches for the 4,077 people it serves. It counted 3.7 in-person visits per person served in 2022. The figures are for 2022, the latest year Alberta has published openly.
BCivic life#429 of 474 in AlbertaBehind Carstairs’s civic life grade
Carstairs gets a B for civic life, #429 of 474 towns graded in Alberta. Carstairs 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.
Carstairs mailing addresses hold 12 registered charities
It works out to 2.3 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 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.
Some 42 visits on an average day
Everything counted at Carstairs Library in 2022: visits, loans and cards.
Carstairs’s 2 public libraries
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Carstairs.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Per person served. Figures are divided by the population the library says it serves, which can differ from the census count of Carstairs.
Questions about the library and civic life in Carstairs
Does Carstairs have a public library?
Yes, 2: Bob Clark Library and Carstairs Public Library.
How busy is Carstairs Library?
Its 2022 report counts 15,241 visits in person and 54,368 items lent.
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).