Photo: Joseph Fred Spalding · Public domainCrowsnest Pass Municipal Library is Crowsnest Pass’s public library
Crowsnest Pass Municipal Library serves 5,589 people from a single building. Its borrowers took out 8.4 items per person served in 2022. The figures are for 2022, the latest year Alberta has published openly.
B+Civic life#65 of 474 in AlbertaWhat Crowsnest Pass’s civic life grade weighs
With a B+, Crowsnest Pass ranks #65 of 474 Alberta towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Crowsnest Pass: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Crowsnest Pass mailing addresses hold 24 registered charities
That is 4 per 1,000 residents, against 1.3 in the typical Alberta town and 1.4 across Canada. 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%
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 1 of 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.
About 44 visits a day
What Crowsnest Pass Municipal Library counted in 2022, as the library reported it.
Crowsnest Pass’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Crowsnest Pass.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Statistics Canada’s 2020 facilities list and OpenStreetMap supply the points; libraries of schools, colleges and hospitals are not shown.
Questions about the library and civic life in Crowsnest Pass
Does Crowsnest Pass have a public library?
Yes: Crowsnest Pass Municipal Library.
How busy is Crowsnest Pass Municipal Library?
The 2022 totals: 16,150 in-person visits, 46,737 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).