Photo: Ken Eckert · CC BY-SA 4.0Drumheller’s public library is Three Hills Municipal Library
A single building, Three Hills Municipal Library, serves 7,982 people. 7.1 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#35 of 474 in AlbertaBehind Drumheller’s civic life grade
Drumheller gets a A− for civic life, #35 of 474 towns graded in Alberta. Drumheller 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.
30 registered charities are based in Drumheller, by 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. 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%
In 2023, 37.1% of people in Alberta volunteered formally: one estimate for the whole province, likely between 35.1% and 39.2%, in a range of 25.2% to 40.3% across the ten provinces.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Alberta’s town libraries on 1 of 3 measures
Per person served, against the 118 town libraries in Alberta’s 2022 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
Some 99 visits on an average day
The year 2022 at Three Hills Municipal Library, in the library’s own counts.
Drumheller’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Drumheller.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Public library locations are taken from OpenStreetMap and a 2020 Statistics Canada inventory, merged where both list one place.
Questions about the library and civic life in Drumheller
Does Drumheller have a public library?
Yes: Three Hills Municipal Library.
How busy is Three Hills Municipal Library?
Its 2022 report counts 36,273 visits in person and 57,054 items lent.
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).