Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Crossfield has one public library, Crossfield Municipal Library
A single building, Crossfield Municipal Library, serves 3,377 people. Its borrowers took out 7.2 items per person served in 2022. The figures are for 2022, the latest year Alberta has published openly.
B+Civic life#78 of 474 in AlbertaWhat Crossfield’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Crossfield grades B+: #78 of the 474 towns graded in Alberta. 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 Crossfield.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Crossfield mailing addresses hold 6 registered charities
It works out to 1.5 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Alberta town has 1.3 and Canada’s 1.4. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.
37.1%
Volunteering here is a provincial number: 37.1% of people across Alberta in 2023, likely 35.1% to 39.2%, set in a ten-province range of 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Alberta’s town libraries on 1 of 3 measures
Measured per person served against the 118 town libraries of Alberta’s 2022 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 45 visits a day
The year 2022 at Crossfield Municipal Library, in the library’s own counts.
Crossfield’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Crossfield, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Per person served. Rather than Crossfield’s census count, the rates use the population the library board says it serves.
Questions about the library and civic life in Crossfield
Does Crossfield have a public library?
Yes: Crossfield Municipal Library.
How busy is Crossfield Municipal Library?
The 2022 totals: 16,338 in-person visits, 24,167 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).