Photo: Matthew Boonstra · CC BY-SA 4.0Fort Saskatchewan has one public library, Fort Saskatchewan Public Library
Fort Saskatchewan Public Library serves 26,942 people from a single building. Its borrowers took out 8.5 items per person served in 2022. The figures are for 2022, the latest year Alberta has published openly.
B−Civic life#443 of 474 in AlbertaFort Saskatchewan’s civic life grade, input by input
With a B−, Fort Saskatchewan ranks #443 of 474 Alberta towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Fort Saskatchewan: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Fort Saskatchewan mailing addresses hold 34 registered charities
It works out to 1.1 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Alberta town has 1.3 and Canada’s 1.4. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.
37.1%
For 2023, the provincial survey estimates that 37.1% of people in Alberta volunteered formally (likely 35.1% to 39.2%); among the ten provinces the rate goes from 25.2% to 40.3%.
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.
About 237 visits a day
Everything counted at Fort Saskatchewan Public Library in 2022: visits, loans and cards.
Fort Saskatchewan’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Fort Saskatchewan.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The locations come from OpenStreetMap and from Statistics Canada’s cultural facilities list of 2020, public libraries only.
Questions about the library and civic life in Fort Saskatchewan
Does Fort Saskatchewan have a public library?
Yes: Fort Saskatchewan Public Library.
How busy is Fort Saskatchewan Public Library?
86,456 in-person visits and 229,776 items borrowed 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).