Photo: Peter Vaitkunas · Public domainSt. Paul’s public library is St. Paul Municipal Library
St. Paul Municipal Library serves 5,963 people from a single building. Its borrowers took out 6.6 items per person served in 2022. The figures are for 2022, the latest year Alberta has published openly.
A−Civic life#47 of 474 in AlbertaBehind St. Paul’s civic life grade
Civic life in St. Paul grades A−: #47 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 St. Paul.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
75 registered charities are based in St. Paul, by mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 12.1; 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%
For 2023, the provincial survey estimates that 37.1% of people in Alberta volunteered formally (likely 35.1% to 39.2%); among the ten provinces the rate goes from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Behind 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 57 visits a day
What St. Paul Municipal Library counted in 2022, as the library reported it.
St. Paul’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of St. Paul.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Two sources make the map, OpenStreetMap and a 2020 Statistics Canada list, with academic and private libraries dropped.
Questions about the library and civic life in St. Paul
Does St. Paul have a public library?
Yes: St. Paul Municipal Library.
How busy is St. Paul Municipal Library?
For 2022 it reported 39,348 loans and 20,627 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).