Photo: Authentic Alberta · CC BY-SA 4.0Fewer visits per person served than 76% of Alberta’s town libraries: Nanton Library counts 2.4
Nanton Library serves 2,181 people from a single building. Loans ran to 8 items per person served in 2022. 2022 is the latest year in Alberta’s open library statistics, so the figures date from then.
B+Civic life#70 of 474 in AlbertaNanton’s civic life grade, input by input
With a B+, Nanton ranks #70 of 474 Alberta towns on civic life. Nanton has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
13 registered charities give a Nanton mailing address
That is 5.2 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%
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 1 of 3 measures
Per person served, against the 118 town libraries in Alberta’s 2022 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
Some 14 visits on an average day
Everything counted at Nanton Library in 2022: visits, loans and cards.
The closest is 26 km from Nanton
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Nanton.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The points are public libraries only, drawn from OpenStreetMap and from Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020).
Questions about the library and civic life in Nanton
Does Nanton have a public library?
No, but High River Library in High River is the nearest public library to Nanton.
How busy is Nanton Library?
The 2022 totals: 5,250 in-person visits, 17,403 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).