Photo: Festbock · CC BY-SA 3.0Medicine Hat Public Library logs 2.1 visits per person served, fewer than 81% of Alberta’s town libraries
A single building, Medicine Hat Public Library, serves 63,260 people. 7.1 items per person served went out on loan in 2022. 2022 is the latest year in Alberta’s open library statistics, so the figures date from then.
B−Civic life#447 of 474 in AlbertaMedicine Hat’s civic life grade, input by input
Medicine Hat gets a B− for civic life, #447 of 474 towns graded in Alberta. All three civic life inputs exist for Medicine Hat: 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.
109 registered charities give a Medicine Hat mailing address
That is 1.6 per 1,000 residents, against 1.3 in the typical Alberta town and 1.4 across Canada. 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%
No town-level count exists, so the page uses Alberta as a whole: 37.1% volunteered formally in 2023, between 35.1% and 39.2%, while the provinces span 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Behind most of Alberta’s town libraries on all 3 measures
Per person served, against the 118 town libraries in Alberta’s 2022 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
Some 369 visits on an average day
The year 2022 at Medicine Hat Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Medicine Hat’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Medicine Hat, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Locations merge two sources, OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, without school, college or hospital libraries.
Questions about the library and civic life in Medicine Hat
Does Medicine Hat have a public library?
Yes: Medicine Hat Public Library.
How busy is Medicine Hat Public Library?
In 2022 it logged 134,783 in-person visits and 452,284 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).