Photo: Shogged · CC BY-SA 4.0Wabasca Public Library lends 1 items per person served, fewer than 96% of Alberta’s town libraries
The 3,181 people Wabasca Public Library serves have 3 branches to choose from. 2.9 visits per person served came through its doors in 2022. 2022 is the latest year in Alberta’s open library statistics, so the figures date from then.
BCivic life#80 of 474 in AlbertaWhat Opportunity No. 17’s civic life grade weighs
With a B, Opportunity No. 17 ranks #80 of 474 Alberta towns on civic life. 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 Opportunity No. 17.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
No registered charity gives a Opportunity No. 17 mailing address
Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
37.1%
One figure covers all of Alberta: in 2023, 37.1% of its people gave time to an organization (between 35.1% and 39.2%), against a provincial range of 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.
About 26 visits a day
The year 2022 at Wabasca Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Opportunity No. 17’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Opportunity No. 17.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Statistics Canada’s 2020 facilities list and OpenStreetMap supply the points; libraries of schools, colleges and hospitals are not shown.
Questions about the library and civic life in Opportunity No. 17
Does Opportunity No. 17 have a public library?
Yes: Wabasca Public Library.
How busy is Wabasca Public Library?
It counted 9,332 in-person visits and lent 3,062 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).