Photo: Masterhatch · CC0Fewer visits per person served than 84% of Alberta’s town libraries: Hanna Library counts 1.6
Hanna Library serves 2,559 people from a single building. Loans ran to 9.7 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#58 of 474 in AlbertaHanna’s civic life grade, input by input
Hanna gets a B+ for civic life, #58 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 Hanna.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
21 registered charities give a Hanna mailing address
That is 7.9 per 1,000 residents, against 1.3 in the typical Alberta town and 1.4 across Canada. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
37.1%
One figure covers all of Alberta: in 2023, 37.1% of its people gave time to an organization (between 35.1% and 39.2%), against a provincial range of 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Alberta’s town libraries on 2 of 3 measures
Measured per person served against the 118 town libraries of Alberta’s 2022 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
Some 11 visits on an average day
The year 2022 at Hanna Library, in the library’s own counts.
The closest is 52 km from Hanna
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Hanna.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Statistics Canada’s 2020 facilities list and OpenStreetMap supply the points; libraries of schools, colleges and hospitals are not shown.
Questions about the library and civic life in Hanna
Does Hanna have a public library?
No, but Youngstown Public Library in Special Area No. 3 is the nearest public library to Hanna.
How busy is Hanna Library?
The 2022 totals: 4,150 in-person visits, 24,947 loans.
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).