Photo: Mhalifu · CC BY-SA 3.0At 7.1 visits per person served, Peace River Municipal Library is busier than 88% of Alberta’s town libraries
Peace River Municipal Library has one location for the 6,842 people it serves. 5.3 items per person served went out on loan in 2022. Alberta’s open library statistics stop at 2022, so these are its 2022 figures.
A−Civic life#49 of 474 in AlbertaBehind Peace River’s civic life grade
Peace River gets a A− for civic life, #49 of 474 towns graded in Alberta. 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 Peace River.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
30 registered charities are based in Peace River, by mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 4.2; the median is 1.3 for Alberta towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. 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
Measured per person served against the 118 town libraries of Alberta’s 2022 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
Some 132 visits on an average day
Everything counted at Peace River Municipal Library in 2022: visits, loans and cards.
Peace River’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Peace River.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from Peace River or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
Questions about the library and civic life in Peace River
Does Peace River have a public library?
Yes: Peace River Municipal Library.
How busy is Peace River Municipal Library?
People made 48,254 visits in person and borrowed 36,559 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).