Photo: Masterhatch · CC BY-SA 4.0More visits per person served than 98% of Alberta’s town libraries: Rocky Mountain House Public Library counts 13.2
Rocky Mountain House Public Library serves 6,635 people from a single building. Its borrowers took out 14 items per person served in 2022. 2022 is the latest year in Alberta’s open library statistics, so the figures date from then.
ACivic life#6 of 474 in AlbertaWhat Rocky Mountain House’s civic life grade weighs
With a A, Rocky Mountain House ranks #6 of 474 Alberta towns on civic life. Rocky Mountain House 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.
38 registered charities give a Rocky Mountain House mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 4.7; 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%
No town-level count exists, so the page uses Alberta as a whole: 37.1% volunteered formally in 2023, between 35.1% and 39.2%, while the provinces span 25.2% to 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.
About 240 visits a day
The year 2022 at Rocky Mountain House Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Rocky Mountain House’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Rocky Mountain House, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A library’s visits include people from neighbouring towns and visitors; the statistics don’t say how many come from Rocky Mountain House itself.
- Per person served. Rather than Rocky Mountain House’s census count, the rates use the population the library board says it serves.
Questions about the library and civic life in Rocky Mountain House
Does Rocky Mountain House have a public library?
Yes: Rocky Mountain House Public Library.
How busy is Rocky Mountain House Public Library?
In 2022 it logged 87,650 in-person visits and 92,765 loans.
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).