Photo: Unknown author Unknown author · Public domainAt 13.2 loans per person served, Didsbury Library lends more than 83% of Alberta’s town libraries
Didsbury Library serves 5,268 people from a single building. 5.8 visits per person served came through its doors in 2022. 2022 is the latest year in Alberta’s open library statistics, so the figures date from then.
B+Civic life#75 of 474 in AlbertaDidsbury’s civic life grade, input by input
With a B+, Didsbury ranks #75 of 474 Alberta towns on civic life. Didsbury 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.
Didsbury mailing addresses hold 11 registered charities
It works out to 2.1 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Alberta town has 1.3 and Canada’s 1.4. 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%
The whole province shares one estimate: 37.1% of people in Alberta volunteered formally in 2023 (between 35.1% and 39.2%), where the ten provinces run from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Alberta’s town libraries on all 3 measures
Measured per person served against the 118 town libraries of Alberta’s 2022 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 83 visits a day
The year 2022 at Didsbury Library, in the library’s own counts.
Didsbury’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Didsbury, as the crow flies.
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 Didsbury.
Questions about the library and civic life in Didsbury
Does Didsbury have a public library?
Yes: Didsbury Library.
How busy is Didsbury Library?
People made 30,399 visits in person and borrowed 69,704 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).