Photo: Joningham · CC BY-SA 4.0Rocky Mountain House Public Library is Innisfail’s public library
A single building, Rocky Mountain House Public Library, serves 7,847 people. Its borrowers took out 8.6 items per person served in 2022. Alberta’s open library statistics stop at 2022, so these are its 2022 figures.
B+Civic life#77 of 474 in AlbertaInnisfail’s civic life grade, input by input
Innisfail gets a B+ for civic life, #77 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 Innisfail.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Innisfail mailing addresses hold 20 registered charities
Per 1,000 residents that makes 2.3; the median is 1.3 for Alberta towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. 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%
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.
Ahead of most of Alberta’s town libraries on 1 of 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 66 visits a day
Everything counted at Rocky Mountain House Public Library in 2022: visits, loans and cards.
Innisfail’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Innisfail, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020), merged; school, college, hospital and private libraries are left out.
Questions about the library and civic life in Innisfail
Does Innisfail have a public library?
Yes: Rocky Mountain House Public Library.
How busy is Rocky Mountain House Public Library?
The 2022 totals: 23,966 in-person visits, 67,499 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).