Photo: WinterE229 WinterforceMedia · CC0In 2022, St. Albert Public Library counted 227,574 in-person visits
St. Albert Public Library has 2 branches for the 66,082 people it serves. Its borrowers took out 11.5 items per person served in 2022. Alberta’s open library statistics stop at 2022, so these are its 2022 figures.
B−Civic life#437 of 474 in AlbertaSt. Albert’s civic life grade, input by input
With a B−, St. Albert ranks #437 of 474 Alberta towns on civic life. St. Albert 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.
St. Albert mailing addresses hold 88 registered charities
That is 1.2 per 1,000 residents, against 1.3 in the typical Alberta town and 1.4 across Canada. The CRA files each charity under its mailing address, so a service town collects its region’s charities and a suburb or rural municipality few.
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 1 of 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.
About 623 visits a day
What St. Albert Public Library counted in 2022, as the library reported it.
St. Albert’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of St. Albert.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020), merged; school, college, hospital and private libraries are left out.
Questions about the library and civic life in St. Albert
Does St. Albert have a public library?
Yes: St. Albert Public Library.
How busy is St. Albert Public Library?
Its 2022 report counts 227,574 visits in person and 756,788 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).