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Libraries · Clearwater County

Clearwater County has no public library of its own; the nearest is Rocky Mountain House Public Library, 13 km away

The next is Eckville Municipal Library (Eckville), 29 km away. Clearwater County has no library board of its own in the provincial statistics, so no visit or loan figures appear here.

B−Civic life#449 of 474 in Alberta
Civic life grade

Behind Clearwater County’s civic life grade

With a B−, Clearwater County ranks #449 of 474 Alberta towns on civic life. Two of the three civic life inputs exist for Clearwater County, enough for a grade: charities and volunteering, but not library visits.

B−
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Clearwater County’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

11 registered charities give a Clearwater County mailing address

That is 0.9 per 1,000 residents, against 1.3 in the typical Alberta town and 1.4 across Canada. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.

Volunteering

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.

Nearest libraries

The closest is 13 km from Clearwater County

Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Clearwater County.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Library locations. Public library locations are taken from OpenStreetMap and a 2020 Statistics Canada inventory, merged where both list one place.

Questions about the library and civic life in Clearwater County

Does Clearwater County have a public library?

None is mapped in Clearwater County; the nearest is Rocky Mountain House Public Library, in Rocky Mountain House.

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).