Photo: Miguel Tremblay · Public domainLamont Public Library lends 1.5 items per person served, fewer than 91% of Alberta’s town libraries
A single building, Lamont Public Library, serves 1,774 people. It counted 0.8 in-person visits per person served in 2022. The figures are for 2022, the latest year Alberta has published openly.
BCivic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteeringWhat Lamont’s civic life grade weighs
Lamont gets a B for civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Lamont: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
13 registered charities give a Lamont mailing address
That is 7 per 1,000 residents, against 1.3 in the typical Alberta town and 1.4 across Canada. 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%
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.
Behind most of Alberta’s town libraries on all 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 4 visits on an average day
Everything counted at Lamont Public Library in 2022: visits, loans and cards.
Lamont’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Lamont.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The map joins OpenStreetMap with Statistics Canada’s 2020 cultural facilities list and leaves out school, college and private libraries.
Questions about the library and civic life in Lamont
Does Lamont have a public library?
Yes: Lamont Public Library.
How busy is Lamont Public Library?
It counted 1,433 in-person visits and lent 2,639 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).