Photo: The Heliotype Co. Ltd.: Publisher · Public domainRochester Public Library draws 1.2 visits per person served, behind 87% of Alberta’s town libraries
Rochester Public Library serves 13,985 people from a single building. Loans ran to 11 items per person served in 2022. 2022 is the latest year in Alberta’s open library statistics, so the figures date from then.
B+Civic life#67 of 474 in AlbertaBehind Lacombe’s civic life grade
Civic life in Lacombe grades B+: #67 of the 474 towns graded in Alberta. Lacombe 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.
Lacombe mailing addresses hold 129 registered charities
Per 1,000 residents that makes 8.8; 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%
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
Each figure is per person served, set against 118 town libraries in Alberta’s statistics for 2022.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
Some 45 visits on an average day
The year 2022 at Rochester Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Lacombe’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Lacombe.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The points are public libraries only, drawn from OpenStreetMap and from Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020).
Questions about the library and civic life in Lacombe
Does Lacombe have a public library?
Yes: Rochester Public Library.
How busy is Rochester Public Library?
16,350 in-person visits and 154,440 items borrowed 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).