No public library stands in Legal: the closest, Gibbons Public Library, is 22 km away

After it comes Entwistle Public Library (Redwater), 31 km away.

CCivic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteering

Directions Nearest libraries

No figures to show. The 2022 statistics list Legal Library, but without visits, loans or cards for it.

Civic life grade

What Legal’s civic life grade weighs

Legal’s civic life grade is C. Legal has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.

Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Legal’s overall grade.

D⁻Library visits0 per resident · Alberta towns 3.6 C⁻Charities1.6 per 1,000 · Alberta towns 1.3 · Canada 1.4 AVolunteering37.1% of residents · all of Alberta, 2023

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

2 registered charities give a Legal mailing address

It works out to 1.6 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Alberta town has 1.3 and Canada’s 1.4. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.

Volunteering

37.1%

37.1% of people in Alberta did formal volunteering in 2023, a province-wide estimate between 35.1% and 39.2%; across the ten provinces the rate runs from 25.2% to 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

Nearest libraries

The closest is 22 km from Legal

Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Legal.

22kmGibbons Public LibraryGibbonsDirections →31kmEntwistle Public LibraryRedwaterDirections →35kmSt. Albert Public LibrarySt. AlbertWebsite →36kmFort Saskatchewan Public LibraryFort SaskatchewanDirections →37kmEPL Castle Downs BranchBeaumarisDirections →

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

Library locations. Statistics Canada’s 2020 facilities list and OpenStreetMap supply the points; libraries of schools, colleges and hospitals are not shown.

Questions about the library and civic life in Legal

Does Legal have a public library?

Not in Legal: the nearest public library is Gibbons Public Library, in Gibbons.

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).