Photo: Neil · CC BY 2.0At 12.2 visits per person served, Devon Public Library is busier than 97% of Alberta’s town libraries
Devon Public Library has one location for the 6,578 people it serves. 12.5 items per person served went out on loan in 2022. Alberta’s open library statistics stop at 2022, so these are its 2022 figures.
A−Civic life#57 of 474 in AlbertaBehind Devon’s civic life grade
With a A−, Devon ranks #57 of 474 Alberta towns on civic life. Devon 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.
25 registered charities give a Devon mailing address
It works out to 3.6 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Alberta town has 1.3 and Canada’s 1.4. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
37.1%
One figure covers all of Alberta: in 2023, 37.1% of its people gave time to an organization (between 35.1% and 39.2%), against a provincial range of 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 220 visits on an average day
What Devon Public Library counted in 2022, as the library reported it.
Devon’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Devon.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Tourists, commuters and neighbours all add to the visits, and nobody records which of them live in Devon.
Questions about the library and civic life in Devon
Does Devon have a public library?
Yes: Devon Public Library.
How busy is Devon Public Library?
In 2022 it logged 80,300 in-person visits and 81,923 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).