Photo: Grant Berg · CC BY-SA 3.0At 16.8 loans per person served, Sexsmith Library lends more than 95% of Alberta’s town libraries
Sexsmith Library has one location for the 2,620 people it serves. It counted 7 in-person visits 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#50 of 474 in AlbertaWhat Sexsmith’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Sexsmith grades A−: #50 of the 474 towns graded in Alberta. 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 Sexsmith.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Sexsmith mailing addresses hold 18 registered charities
Per 1,000 residents that makes 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%
One figure covers all of Alberta: in 2023, 37.1% of its people gave time to an organization (between 35.1% and 39.2%), against a provincial range of 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.
Some 50 visits on an average day
Everything counted at Sexsmith Library in 2022: visits, loans and cards.
The closest is 20 km from Sexsmith
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Sexsmith.
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 Sexsmith itself.
Questions about the library and civic life in Sexsmith
Does Sexsmith have a public library?
None is mapped in Sexsmith; the nearest is Montrose Cultural Centre, in Grande Prairie.
How busy is Sexsmith Library?
For 2022 it reported 44,059 loans and 18,381 in-person visits.
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).