Photo: Tiado · CC BY-SA 3.0At 6.3 visits per person served, Claresholm Public Library is busier than 82% of Alberta’s town libraries
Claresholm Public Library has one location for the 3,780 people it serves. Loans ran to 12.1 items per person served in 2022. The figures are for 2022, the latest year Alberta has published openly.
ACivic life#11 of 474 in AlbertaWhat Claresholm’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Claresholm grades A: #11 of the 474 towns graded in Alberta. Claresholm 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.
20 registered charities give a Claresholm mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 4.7; the median is 1.3 for Alberta towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. 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%
37.1% of people in Alberta did formal volunteering in 2023, a province-wide estimate between 35.1% and 39.2%; across the ten provinces the rate runs from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Alberta’s town libraries on all 3 measures
Per person served, against the 118 town libraries in Alberta’s 2022 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
Some 65 visits on an average day
The year 2022 at Claresholm Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Claresholm’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Claresholm.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Visitors and people from nearby towns are in the count too; how many live in Claresholm isn’t recorded.
Questions about the library and civic life in Claresholm
Does Claresholm have a public library?
Yes: Claresholm Public Library.
How busy is Claresholm Public Library?
People made 23,791 visits in person and borrowed 45,815 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).