Photo: Xz1303 · CC BY-SA 3.0Okotoks’s public library is Okotoks Public Library
Okotoks Public Library has one location for the 29,002 people it serves. Its borrowers took out 11.4 items per person served in 2022. Alberta’s open library statistics stop at 2022, so these are its 2022 figures.
BCivic life#433 of 474 in AlbertaOkotoks’s civic life grade, input by input
Okotoks gets a B for civic life, #433 of 474 towns graded in Alberta. Okotoks 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.
35 registered charities give a Okotoks mailing address
It works out to 1.1 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%
In 2023, 37.1% of people in Alberta volunteered formally: one estimate for the whole province, likely between 35.1% and 39.2%, in a range of 25.2% to 40.3% across the ten provinces.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of 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.
About 308 visits a day
The year 2022 at Okotoks Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Okotoks’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Okotoks.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The map joins OpenStreetMap with Statistics Canada’s 2020 cultural facilities list and leaves out school, college and private libraries.
Questions about the library and civic life in Okotoks
Does Okotoks have a public library?
Yes: Okotoks Public Library.
How busy is Okotoks Public Library?
People made 112,410 visits in person and borrowed 331,471 items in 2022.
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).