Photo: Rural Health Professions Action Plan from Canada · CC BY 2.0At 10.7 visits per person served, Rimbey Community Library is busier than 95% of Alberta’s town libraries
Rimbey Community Library serves 2,567 people from a single building. Loans ran to 12.4 items per person served in 2022. 2022 is the latest year in Alberta’s open library statistics, so the figures date from then.
A−Civic life#36 of 474 in AlbertaRimbey’s civic life grade, input by input
With a A−, Rimbey ranks #36 of 474 Alberta towns on civic life. 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 Rimbey.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Rimbey mailing addresses hold 20 registered charities
Per 1,000 residents that makes 8; the median is 1.3 for Alberta towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. 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
Per person served, against the 118 town libraries in Alberta’s 2022 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
Some 75 visits on an average day
What Rimbey Community Library counted in 2022, as the library reported it.
Rimbey’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Rimbey.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Visitors and people from nearby towns are in the count too; how many live in Rimbey isn’t recorded.
Questions about the library and civic life in Rimbey
Does Rimbey have a public library?
Yes: Rimbey Community Library.
How busy is Rimbey Community Library?
Over 2022: 31,815 items out on loan, 27,377 visits through the door.
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).