Photo: paulhami · CC BY-SA 2.0Entwistle Public Library logs 0.4 visits per person served, fewer than 94% of Alberta’s town libraries
The 32,779 people Entwistle Public Library serves have 5 branches to choose from. 1.2 items per person served went out on loan in 2022. Alberta’s open library statistics stop at 2022, so these are its 2022 figures.
C−Civic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteeringWhat Parkland County’s civic life grade weighs
Parkland County gets a C− for 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 Parkland County.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
13 registered charities give a Parkland County mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 0.4; the median is 1.3 for Alberta towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. 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%
The 2023 survey gives Alberta one volunteering rate for all its towns, 37.1% (between 35.1% and 39.2%), while provinces run from 25.2% at the low end to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Behind most of Alberta’s town libraries on all 3 measures
Measured per person served against the 118 town libraries of Alberta’s 2022 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
Some 38 visits on an average day
Everything counted at Entwistle Public Library in 2022: visits, loans and cards.
Parkland County’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Parkland County.
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 Parkland County
Does Parkland County have a public library?
Yes: Entwistle Public Library.
How busy is Entwistle Public Library?
13,743 in-person visits and 39,635 items borrowed 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).