Photo: Bythelake10 · CC BY-SA 4.0Chestermere has one public library, Chestermere Public Library
Chestermere Public Library serves 20,732 people from a single building. Loans ran to 5.6 items per person served in 2022. 2022 is the latest year in Alberta’s open library statistics, so the figures date from then.
C+Civic life#469 of 474 in AlbertaChestermere’s civic life grade, input by input
With a C+, Chestermere ranks #469 of 474 Alberta towns on civic life. A civic life grade combines library visits per resident, registered charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate, and all three exist for Chestermere.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
19 registered charities give a Chestermere mailing address
It works out to 0.6 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%
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 1 of 3 measures
Per person served, against the 118 town libraries in Alberta’s 2022 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
Some 138 visits on an average day
The year 2022 at Chestermere Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Chestermere’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Chestermere.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Per person served. Per-person rates rest on the service area the library reports, which may be larger or smaller than Chestermere itself.
Questions about the library and civic life in Chestermere
Does Chestermere have a public library?
Yes: Chestermere Public Library.
How busy is Chestermere Public Library?
It counted 50,254 in-person visits and lent 116,532 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).