Photo: Shawn from Airdrie, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Fewer loans per person served than 78% of Alberta’s town libraries: Morinville Library lends 5.1
A single building, Morinville Library, serves 9,893 people. In 2022 it logged 2.6 visits for every person it serves. 2022 is the latest year in Alberta’s open library statistics, so the figures date from then.
B−Civic life#436 of 474 in AlbertaBehind Morinville’s civic life grade
Morinville gets a B− for civic life, #436 of 474 towns graded in Alberta. 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 Morinville.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
18 registered charities are based in Morinville, by mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.7; the median is 1.3 for Alberta towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. 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%
Volunteering here is a provincial number: 37.1% of people across Alberta in 2023, likely 35.1% to 39.2%, set in a ten-province range of 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.
About 70 visits a day
The year 2022 at Morinville Library, in the library’s own counts.
The nearest library is 19 km from Morinville
In order of distance from the centre of Morinville, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020), merged; school, college, hospital and private libraries are left out.
Questions about the library and civic life in Morinville
Does Morinville have a public library?
Not within Morinville itself: the closest is St. Albert Public Library, in St. Albert.
How busy is Morinville Library?
In 2022 it logged 25,382 in-person visits and 50,868 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).