Photo: John Wiley User:Jw4nvc - Santa Barbara, California · CC BY 3.0More loans per person served than 98% of Alberta’s town libraries: Fort Macleod Library lends 20.2
Fort Macleod Library serves 2,967 people from a single building. In 2022 it logged 5.2 visits for every person it serves. The figures are for 2022, the latest year Alberta has published openly.
ACivic life#25 of 474 in AlbertaBehind Fort Macleod’s civic life grade
Fort Macleod gets a A for civic life, #25 of 474 towns graded in Alberta. A civic life grade combines library visits per resident, registered charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate, and all three exist for Fort Macleod.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Fort Macleod mailing addresses hold 18 registered charities
That is 4.6 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.
37.1%
Formal volunteering is measured only for the province: 37.1% of Alberta’s people in 2023, give or take (35.1% to 39.2%), with the provinces between 25.2% and 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 42 visits a day
The year 2022 at Fort Macleod Library, in the library’s own counts.
The nearest library is 36 km from Fort Macleod
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Fort Macleod.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Visitors and people from nearby towns are in the count too; how many live in Fort Macleod isn’t recorded.
- Per person served. The library sets its own service population, and the rates here divide by it rather than by Fort Macleod’s census count.
Questions about the library and civic life in Fort Macleod
Does Fort Macleod have a public library?
Not within Fort Macleod itself: the closest is Lethbridge Public Library - Crossings Branch, in Lethbridge.
How busy is Fort Macleod Library?
Its 2022 report counts 15,400 visits in person and 59,803 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).