Photo: Nathan Schneider, aka Schnits at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0At 13.6 visits per person served, Penhold And District Library is busier than all but a few of Alberta’s town libraries
Penhold And District Library serves 3,563 people from a single building. Loans ran to 10.8 items per person served in 2022. Alberta’s open library statistics stop at 2022, so these are its 2022 figures.
ACivic life#28 of 474 in AlbertaPenhold’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Penhold grades A: #28 of the 474 towns graded in Alberta. Penhold 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.
4 registered charities give a Penhold 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. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
37.1%
37.1% of people in Alberta did formal volunteering in 2023, a province-wide estimate between 35.1% and 39.2%; across the ten provinces the rate runs from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Alberta’s town libraries on 2 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
What Penhold And District Library counted in 2022, as the library reported it.
Penhold’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Penhold.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from Penhold or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
Questions about the library and civic life in Penhold
Does Penhold have a public library?
Yes: Penhold And District Library.
How busy is Penhold And District Library?
It counted 48,344 in-person visits and lent 38,402 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).