Photo: Fil.Al · CC BY 2.0Jasper’s public library is Jasper Municipal Library
Jasper Municipal Library has one location for the 4,590 people it serves. Its borrowers took out 6.3 items per person served in 2022. 2022 is the latest year in Alberta’s open library statistics, so the figures date from then.
A−Civic life#53 of 474 in AlbertaJasper’s civic life grade, input by input
Jasper gets a A− for civic life, #53 of 474 towns graded in Alberta. Jasper 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.
12 registered charities give a Jasper mailing address
It works out to 2.6 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Alberta town has 1.3 and Canada’s 1.4. 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%
For 2023, the provincial survey estimates that 37.1% of people in Alberta volunteered formally (likely 35.1% to 39.2%); among the ten provinces the rate goes from 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.
About 46 visits a day
The year 2022 at Jasper Municipal Library, in the library’s own counts.
Jasper’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Jasper.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The locations come from OpenStreetMap and from Statistics Canada’s cultural facilities list of 2020, public libraries only.
Questions about the library and civic life in Jasper
Does Jasper have a public library?
Yes: Jasper Municipal Library.
How busy is Jasper Municipal Library?
People made 16,646 visits in person and borrowed 28,750 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).