Photo: Amqui · CC BY-SA 4.0Each person Hughenden Public Library serves borrows 0.3 items, fewer than at all but a few of Alberta’s town libraries
Hughenden Public Library has one location for the 2,205 people it serves. In 2022 it logged 0.6 visits for every person it serves. Alberta’s open library statistics stop at 2022, so these are its 2022 figures.
B+Civic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteeringBehind Provost No. 52’s civic life grade
Provost No. 52’s civic life grade is B+. Provost No. 52 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.
3 registered charities give a Provost No. 52 mailing address
That is 1.4 per 1,000 residents, against 1.3 in the typical Alberta town and 1.4 across Canada. 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%
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
Measured per person served against the 118 town libraries of Alberta’s 2022 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 3 visits a day
The year 2022 at Hughenden Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Provost No. 52’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Provost No. 52.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Locations merge two sources, OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, without school, college or hospital libraries.
Questions about the library and civic life in Provost No. 52
Does Provost No. 52 have a public library?
Yes: Hughenden Public Library.
How busy is Hughenden Public Library?
Its 2022 report counts 1,250 visits in person and 675 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).