Photo: Qyd · CC BY 2.5Drayton Valley Public Library is Drayton Valley’s public library
Drayton Valley Public Library serves 7,235 people from a single building. In 2022 it lent 9.2 items for every person it serves. Alberta’s open library statistics stop at 2022, so these are its 2022 figures.
B−Civic life#439 of 474 in AlbertaBehind Drayton Valley’s civic life grade
Civic life in Drayton Valley grades B−: #439 of the 474 towns graded in Alberta. Drayton Valley 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.
33 registered charities give a Drayton Valley mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 4.1; the median is 1.3 for Alberta towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. 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%
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 2 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 62 visits a day
What Drayton Valley Public Library counted in 2022, as the library reported it.
Drayton Valley’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Drayton Valley, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. A library listed by both OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada appears once; campus, school and private ones are left off.
Questions about the library and civic life in Drayton Valley
Does Drayton Valley have a public library?
Yes: Drayton Valley Public Library.
How busy is Drayton Valley Public Library?
Over 2022: 66,438 items out on loan, 22,594 visits through the door.
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).