Photo: Sir-Mister-Horse · CC BY 4.0Each person Sundre Public Library serves borrows 14.3 items, more than at 92% of Alberta’s town libraries
Sundre Public Library serves 2,729 people from a single building. 6 visits per person served came through its doors in 2022. Alberta’s open library statistics stop at 2022, so these are its 2022 figures.
B+Civic life#74 of 474 in AlbertaWhat Sundre’s civic life grade weighs
Sundre gets a B+ for civic life, #74 of 474 towns graded in Alberta. Sundre 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.
Sundre mailing addresses hold 21 registered charities
Per 1,000 residents that makes 7.8; 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%
Across Alberta, 37.1% of people volunteered through an organization in 2023, a provincial estimate with a likely range of 35.1% to 39.2%; the lowest province sits at 25.2% and the highest at 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.
About 45 visits a day
Everything counted at Sundre Public Library in 2022: visits, loans and cards.
Sundre’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Sundre.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Tourists, commuters and neighbours all add to the visits, and nobody records which of them live in Sundre.
Questions about the library and civic life in Sundre
Does Sundre have a public library?
Yes: Sundre Public Library.
How busy is Sundre Public Library?
The 2022 totals: 16,437 in-person visits, 38,899 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).