Photo: Mhalifu · CC BY-SA 3.0Fewer visits per person served than all but a few of Alberta’s town libraries: Brownvale Community Library counts 0.2
Brownvale Community Library serves 1,747 people from a single building. 0.9 items per person served went out on loan in 2022. 2022 is the latest year in Alberta’s open library statistics, so the figures date from then.
C+Civic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteeringBehind Peace No. 135’s civic life grade
Peace No. 135 gets a C+ for civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Peace No. 135: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
No registered charity gives a Peace No. 135 mailing address
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%
Formal volunteering is measured only for the province: 37.1% of Alberta’s people in 2023, give or take (35.1% to 39.2%), with the provinces between 25.2% and 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Behind most of Alberta’s town libraries on all 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.
Some 1 visits on an average day
What Brownvale Community Library counted in 2022, as the library reported it.
Peace No. 135’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Peace No. 135.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Only public libraries are mapped: OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, with school and university libraries removed.
Questions about the library and civic life in Peace No. 135
Does Peace No. 135 have a public library?
Yes: Brownvale Community Library.
How busy is Brownvale Community Library?
Its 2022 report counts 391 visits in person and 1,566 items lent.
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).