Photo: Wilson Hui from Calgary, Canada · CC BY 2.0More visits per person served than 89% of Alberta’s town libraries: Grimshaw Library counts 8.1
Grimshaw Library has one location for the 2,718 people it serves. In 2022 it lent 11.7 items for every person it serves. Alberta’s open library statistics stop at 2022, so these are its 2022 figures.
A−Civic life#47 of 474 in AlbertaGrimshaw’s civic life grade, input by input
With a A−, Grimshaw ranks #47 of 474 Alberta towns on civic life. Grimshaw 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.
Grimshaw mailing addresses hold 8 registered charities
That is 2.9 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%
Across Alberta, 37.1% of people volunteered through an organization in 2023, a provincial estimate with a likely range of 35.1% to 39.2%; the lowest province sits at 25.2% and the highest at 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 60 visits a day
Everything counted at Grimshaw Library in 2022: visits, loans and cards.
The nearest library is 18 km from Grimshaw
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Grimshaw.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A library’s visits include people from neighbouring towns and visitors; the statistics don’t say how many come from Grimshaw itself.
Questions about the library and civic life in Grimshaw
Does Grimshaw have a public library?
Not within Grimshaw itself: the closest is Brownvale Community Library, in Peace No. 135.
How busy is Grimshaw Library?
For 2022 it reported 31,921 loans and 22,054 in-person visits.
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).