Photo: Qyd · CC BY-SA 3.0Fewer loans per person served than 83% of Alberta’s town libraries: Hinton Municipal Library lends 4.1
A single building, Hinton Municipal Library, serves 9,882 people. Alberta’s open library statistics stop at 2022, so these are its 2022 figures.
BCivic life#430 of 474 in AlbertaHinton’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Hinton grades B: #430 of the 474 towns graded in Alberta. Hinton 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.
25 registered charities give a Hinton mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 2.5; the median is 1.3 for Alberta towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. 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%
The 2023 survey gives Alberta one volunteering rate for all its towns, 37.1% (between 35.1% and 39.2%), while provinces run from 25.2% at the low end to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Behind most of Alberta’s town libraries on all 2 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 112 loans a day
The year 2022 at Hinton Municipal Library, in the library’s own counts.
Hinton’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Hinton.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Two sources make the map, OpenStreetMap and a 2020 Statistics Canada list, with academic and private libraries dropped.
Questions about the library and civic life in Hinton
Does Hinton have a public library?
Yes: Hinton Municipal Library.
How busy is Hinton Municipal Library?
It lent 40,710 items 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).