Photo: Jacob Marfo · CC BY-SA 3.0Fewer visits per person served than 96% of Alberta’s town libraries: Rainbow Lake Municipal Library counts 0.3
Rainbow Lake Municipal Library serves 12,512 people from 3 branches. In 2022 it lent 12 items for every person it serves. 2022 is the latest year in Alberta’s open library statistics, so the figures date from then.
C+Civic life#461 of 474 in AlbertaWhat La Crète’s civic life grade weighs
La Crète gets a C+ for civic life, #461 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 La Crète.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
La Crète mailing addresses hold 26 registered charities
Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.8; 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%
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
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 11 visits a day
Everything counted at Rainbow Lake Municipal Library in 2022: visits, loans and cards.
La Crète’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of La Crète.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Only public libraries are mapped: OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, with school and university libraries removed.
Questions about the library and civic life in La Crète
Does La Crète have a public library?
Yes: Rainbow Lake Municipal Library.
How busy is Rainbow Lake Municipal Library?
It counted 4,078 in-person visits and lent 150,449 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).