Photo: Thank you for visiting my page from Canada · CC BY 2.0Strathmore Library logs 13.7 visits per person served, more than all but a few of Alberta’s town libraries
The 13,528 people Strathmore Library serves have 2 branches to choose from. Loans ran to 9.5 items per person served in 2022. The figures are for 2022, the latest year Alberta has published openly.
ACivic life#34 of 474 in AlbertaWhat Strathmore’s civic life grade weighs
Strathmore gets a A for civic life, #34 of 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 Strathmore.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Strathmore mailing addresses hold 32 registered charities
That is 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%
Formal volunteering is measured only for the province: 37.1% of Alberta’s people in 2023, give or take (35.1% to 39.2%), with the provinces between 25.2% and 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Alberta’s town libraries on all 3 measures
Measured per person served against the 118 town libraries of Alberta’s 2022 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
Some 508 visits on an average day
Everything counted at Strathmore Library in 2022: visits, loans and cards.
Strathmore’s 2 public libraries
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Strathmore.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Visitors and people from nearby towns are in the count too; how many live in Strathmore isn’t recorded.
- Per person served. Figures are divided by the population the library says it serves, which can differ from the census count of Strathmore.
Questions about the library and civic life in Strathmore
Does Strathmore have a public library?
Yes, 2: Strathmore Municipal Library and Strathmore Municipal Library.
How busy is Strathmore Library?
It counted 185,572 in-person visits and lent 128,398 items in 2022.
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).