Photo: SempreVolando · CC BY 3.0Stuart MacPherson Public Library logs 2.1 visits per person served, fewer than 80% of Alberta’s town libraries
Stuart MacPherson Public Library serves 9,636 people from 2 branches. 5 items per person served went out on loan in 2022. Alberta’s open library statistics stop at 2022, so these are its 2022 figures.
B+Civic life#68 of 474 in AlbertaLac la Biche County’s civic life grade, input by input
With a B+, Lac la Biche County ranks #68 of 474 Alberta towns on civic life. 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 Lac la Biche County.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Lac la Biche County mailing addresses hold 31 registered charities
Per 1,000 residents that makes 3.6; 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%
Statistics Canada puts formal volunteering in Alberta at 37.1% in 2023, somewhere between 35.1% and 39.2%, for every town in the province alike; provinces range 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
Measured per person served against the 118 town libraries of Alberta’s 2022 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
Some 56 visits on an average day
The year 2022 at Stuart MacPherson Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Lac la Biche County’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Lac la Biche County.
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 Lac la Biche County
Does Lac la Biche County have a public library?
Yes: Stuart MacPherson Public Library.
How busy is Stuart MacPherson Public Library?
In 2022 it logged 20,605 in-person visits and 48,115 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).