Photo: Grant Berg · CC BY-SA 3.0Grande Prairie Public Library and Shannon Municipal Library are Grande Prairie’s two public libraries
The 69,088 people Grande Prairie Library serves have 2 branches to choose from. Loans ran to 6.8 items per person served in 2022. 2022 is the latest year in Alberta’s open library statistics, so the figures date from then.
B−Civic life#450 of 474 in AlbertaWhat Grande Prairie’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Grande Prairie grades B−: #450 of the 474 towns graded in Alberta. Grande Prairie 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.
100 registered charities are based in Grande Prairie, by mailing address
It works out to 1.4 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%
Volunteering here is a provincial number: 37.1% of people across Alberta in 2023, likely 35.1% to 39.2%, set in a ten-province range of 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Behind most of Alberta’s town libraries on all 3 measures
Per person served, against the 118 town libraries in Alberta’s 2022 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
Some 457 visits on an average day
What Grande Prairie Library counted in 2022, as the library reported it.
Grande Prairie’s 2 public libraries
In order of distance from the centre of Grande Prairie, 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 Grande Prairie
Does Grande Prairie have a public library?
Yes, 2: Grande Prairie Public Library and Shannon Municipal Library.
How busy is Grande Prairie Library?
Over 2022: 469,630 items out on loan, 166,915 visits through the door.
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).