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Libraries · Fairview

Fairview has one public library, Fairview Public Library

Fairview Public Library reports for 4,602 people, a wider area than Fairview, and its figures cover all of them. In 2022 it lent 5.8 items for every person it serves. Alberta’s open library statistics stop at 2022, so these are its 2022 figures.

B+Civic life#66 of 474 in Alberta
Visits a year
130
0 per person served
Borrowed a year
26,477
5.8 per person served
Cardholders
11%
516 cards
Libraries
1
Charities
25
8.6 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

What Fairview’s civic life grade weighs

Civic life in Fairview grades B+: #66 of the 474 towns graded in Alberta. Two of the three civic life inputs exist for Fairview, enough for a grade: charities and volunteering, but not library visits.

B+
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Fairview’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

25 registered charities are based in Fairview, by mailing address

That is 8.6 per 1,000 residents, against 1.3 in the typical Alberta town and 1.4 across Canada. 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.

Volunteering

37.1%

No town-level count exists, so the page uses Alberta as a whole: 37.1% volunteered formally in 2023, between 35.1% and 39.2%, while the provinces span 25.2% to 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

A year at the library

About 0 visits a day

Everything counted at Fairview Public Library in 2022: visits, loans and cards.

130
in-person visits
0 per person served
26,477
items borrowed
5.8 per person served
516
cardholders
11% of people served
Every week3visits
Every day73items borrowed
4,602 people served
The libraries

Fairview’s public library

In order of distance from the centre of Fairview, as the crow flies.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Library locations. Locations merge two sources, OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, without school, college or hospital libraries.

Questions about the library and civic life in Fairview

Does Fairview have a public library?

Yes: Fairview Public Library.

How busy is Fairview Public Library?

People made 130 visits in person and borrowed 26,477 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).