Gibbons Public Library logs 0.6 visits per person served, fewer than 91% of Alberta’s town libraries
Gibbons Public Library serves 3,159 people from a single building. In 2022 it lent 4.2 items for every person it serves. The figures are for 2022, the latest year Alberta has published openly.
CCivic life#470 of 474 in AlbertaGibbons’s civic life grade, input by input
Gibbons gets a C for civic life, #470 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 Gibbons.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
11 registered charities are based in Gibbons, by mailing address
It works out to 3.3 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Alberta town has 1.3 and Canada’s 1.4. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
37.1%
The whole province shares one estimate: 37.1% of people in Alberta volunteered formally in 2023 (between 35.1% and 39.2%), where the ten provinces run from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Behind most of Alberta’s town libraries on all 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 5 visits a day
What Gibbons Public Library counted in 2022, as the library reported it.
Gibbons’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Gibbons, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Only public libraries are mapped: OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, with school and university libraries removed.
Questions about the library and civic life in Gibbons
Does Gibbons have a public library?
Yes: Gibbons Public Library.
How busy is Gibbons Public Library?
2,000 in-person visits and 13,177 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).