Photo: awmcphee · CC BY-SA 4.0Each person Manning Municipal Library serves borrows 13.7 items, more than at 87% of Alberta’s town libraries
Manning Municipal Library has one location for the 1,183 people it serves. 6.7 visits per person served came through its doors in 2022. Alberta’s open library statistics stop at 2022, so these are its 2022 figures.
A−Civic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteeringManning’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Manning grades A−. 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 Manning.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Manning mailing addresses hold 11 registered charities
It works out to 9.5 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.
37.1%
For 2023, the provincial survey estimates that 37.1% of people in Alberta volunteered formally (likely 35.1% to 39.2%); among the ten provinces the rate goes from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of 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.
About 22 visits a day
The year 2022 at Manning Municipal Library, in the library’s own counts.
Manning’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Manning.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A library’s visits include people from neighbouring towns and visitors; the statistics don’t say how many come from Manning itself.
Questions about the library and civic life in Manning
Does Manning have a public library?
Yes: Manning Municipal Library.
How busy is Manning Municipal Library?
For 2022 it reported 16,245 loans and 7,934 in-person visits.
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).