Photo: jasonwoodhead23 · CC BY 2.0More visits per person served than 90% of Alberta’s town libraries: Millet Public Library counts 8.3
Millet Public Library serves 7,229 people from a single building. Loans ran to 9.6 items per person served in 2022. The figures are for 2022, the latest year Alberta has published openly.
A−Civic life#37 of 474 in AlbertaBehind Ponoka’s civic life grade
Civic life in Ponoka grades A−: #37 of the 474 towns graded in Alberta. All three civic life inputs exist for Ponoka: 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.
31 registered charities are based in Ponoka, by mailing address
That is 3.8 per 1,000 residents, against 1.3 in the typical Alberta town and 1.4 across Canada. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
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.
Ahead of 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 164 visits on an average day
What Millet Public Library counted in 2022, as the library reported it.
Ponoka’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Ponoka.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Tourists, commuters and neighbours all add to the visits, and nobody records which of them live in Ponoka.
Questions about the library and civic life in Ponoka
Does Ponoka have a public library?
Yes: Millet Public Library.
How busy is Millet Public Library?
It counted 59,870 in-person visits and lent 69,326 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).