Photo: Hero122 · CC BY-SA 3.0Stirling Library draws 5.6 visits per person served, ahead of 76% of Alberta’s town libraries
Stirling Library has one location for the 1,269 people it serves. 11.8 items per person served went out on loan in 2022. Alberta’s open library statistics stop at 2022, so these are its 2022 figures.
A−Civic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteeringStirling’s civic life grade, input by input
Stirling gets a A− for civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Stirling: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Stirling mailing addresses hold 3 registered charities
It works out to 2.2 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Alberta town has 1.3 and Canada’s 1.4. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
37.1%
Volunteering here is a provincial number: 37.1% of people across Alberta in 2023, likely 35.1% to 39.2%, set in a ten-province 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
Each figure is per person served, set against 118 town libraries in Alberta’s statistics for 2022.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
Some 19 visits on an average day
The year 2022 at Stirling Library, in the library’s own counts.
The closest is 11 km from Stirling
In order of distance from the centre of Stirling, 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 Stirling itself.
Questions about the library and civic life in Stirling
Does Stirling have a public library?
Not in Stirling: the nearest public library is Raymond Public Library, in Raymond.
How busy is Stirling Library?
In 2022 it logged 7,071 in-person visits and 14,916 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).